Our strive as Jailbreakers is not only to customize our devices to 'look' how we want them to look, but also to have the functionality we want.
iOS7 brought many changes to the mobile UI envoirement, some good, some bad and many others hotly debated. Nobody can deny that many of the new elements bring a nice, fresh experience.
In their endless pursuit to satisfy its customers, Apple has missed out some elements that have been seen as fundamental mistakes. One such loss, while transferring from iOS6 to iOS7, was a rather simple thing.
Safari is Apples premier app, simple, clean and above all, fast - taking advantage of their own 'Nitrous Engine', after which the Jailbreak tweak was named. Safari is not feature packed, it's not a rival to Google's Chrome and isn't aesthetically pleasing as Atomic's browser. Safari has one job in Apples opinion - display web pages, that's all.
It seems then, given it's simplicity, that Safari should have been 'easy' to design and bring over at least one tiny feature that previous iOS's had. A number.
That teeny little number that indicated to us users how many tabs we have open, it seems small right? Kinda like it doesn't actually matter? Imagine the frustration however, which if you're running iOS7 you likely already have, when you open Safari and a dozen old tabs reload because you forgot to close out of them previously, because that darned tab doesn't tell you that you have any tabs open!
This is where a new tweak, SafariTabCount, comes in. With the original iOS6 design but with an iOS7 styled aesthetic, this tweak is golden. Small, uncomplicated, smooth and above all fills that irritating gap in Apples design.
The tweak is free and hosted on the default 'Mod My I' repo (at the time of writing its version 1.0), it's certainly worth a try and only if you uninstall it will you realise just how much this tiny tweak adds to your iDevice experience.
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