Currently in the iPhone safari mobile browser, if you have 8 tabs open and open a new tab, the new tab opens as requested, but one of the existing tabs is silently discarded.

Is there any known way to change this behaviour, e.g. to prompt me first and allow me to choose which tab to close, or to open the 9th tab, or to at least have visibility of what tab was closed?

When I open something in a new tab it's because I want to come back to the previous tab later, so this conflicts with the way I usually browse the web.

My current workaround is to manually monitor the tab count -- i.e. to check that the count is 7 or less before opening a new tab.