I've been running IE7 on my desktop at work for several months now. Updating it with each new iteration. In a nutshell, it rocks! I've really enjoyed using it and have even uninstalled AvantBrowser [a great wrapper for IE6] without turning back.

Once the IE7 public beta was announced, I decided to upgrade my other machines to this new found goodness. Well, I was having some issues on my laptop that I hadn't experienced on my desktop. Namely, new instances of IE7 were being opened whenever a link was forcibly opening a new window (a href="http://somelink" target="new") instead of simply opening that link in a new tab in my existing instance of IE7. It was irritating to say the least. Then I noticed Omar Shahine's post on this very subject.

If you want new windows to open in a new tab then you must set two particular options:

• Tools --> Internet Options --> Advanced tab --> Browsing section --> Select checkbox for "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts"
• Tools --> Internet Options --> General tab --> Tabs section --> Settings --> Under "When a pop-up is encountered:" select "Let Internet Explorer decide how pop-ups should open"

Now things are working as they should and I'm a happy little web surfer once again...

~tod

tags: IE7