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Having trouble with how your tabs are opening in IE7?

Friday, February 17 2006

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"

Omar has pretty pictures in his post if you prefer those to my directions above. ;-)

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

~tod

tags: IE7