IE8 Open Tabs?

I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a page, particularly if I
get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is it possible to set
IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new ones?

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

<> wrote in message
news:...
>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a page,
>particularly if I
> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is it
> possible to set
> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new ones?
>
> Thanks for any insights.
> charliec


There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the tabs as
the links and pop-ups are encountered.

Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section for
Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked our
unchecked, you may need to restart IE.

>On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland" <> wrote:

>
><> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a page,
>>particularly if I
>> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is it
>> possible to set
>> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new ones?
>>
>> Thanks for any insights.
>> charliec
>
>
>There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the tabs as
>the links and pop-ups are encountered.
>
>Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section for
>Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
>deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
>options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked our
>unchecked, you may need to restart IE.
>
>
Ok, I went there and on the Tabs Section under "When a new tab is open, Open:", I changed
it to "Your First Home Page". Hopefully that will do it and not open many tabs. I'll see
how it goes.

Thanks

<> wrote in message
news:...
> >On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
> ><> wrote:
>
>>
>><> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a page,
>>>particularly if I
>>> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is
>>> it
>>> possible to set
>>> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new
>>> ones?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insights.
>>> charliec
>>
>>
>>There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the tabs
>>as
>>the links and pop-ups are encountered.
>>
>>Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section
>>for
>>Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
>>deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
>>options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked our
>>unchecked, you may need to restart IE.
>>
>>
> Ok, I went there and on the Tabs Section under "When a new tab is open,
> Open:", I changed
> it to "Your First Home Page". Hopefully that will do it and not open many
> tabs. I'll see
> how it goes.
>
> Thanks


That's not the setting to do what you asked. When YOU open a new tab, that
setting will send you to a new instance of your own First Homepage instead
of taking you to a blank page. Personally, I like this setting and this is
how I have IE set because I don't like a blank page for some reason. My
First Homepage is Yahoo, and I prefer this to the others. I like the search
engine that it has built in. I run IE with no add-ons because I don't like
the performance loss when I am not utelizing the feature that the add-on
brings. I prefer to start whatever the add-on does when I actually want it
to run. I have fiber optic internet, so I have more than enough speed to
start anything I want when I want, and am never bothered by stuff bogging my
machine down.

But, back to you...

That setting does nothing for handling links that you have clicked on. You
want to make selections from within WHEN A POP-UP IS ENCOUNTERED:, and OPEN
LINKS FROM OTHER PROGRAMS IN:

Beyond the annoyance of opening tabs, I'm not sure what the problem is. Just
select the tab you are not interested in anymore, and click the X in the
corner of the tab to close it and not close all of IE. You can also click
the X on the top of the window and close IE and all open tabs, all at the
same time. I frequently go through and close individual tabs.

Think of tabs like doors in your house. You move from one room to the next,
and open a door. When you leave the room, you close the door. You do not
take the door off of the hinge, nor do you nail the door closed because both
of these options pretty much kill the purpose of having a door in the first
place. When you go into a new room, and there is a door to look behind, you
don't blame the door for remaining open, you just close it when you are
done.

>On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:50:59 -0800, "Jeff Strickland" <> wrote:

>
><> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> >On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
>> ><> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>><> wrote in message
>>>news: ...
>>>>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a page,
>>>>particularly if I
>>>> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is
>>>> it
>>>> possible to set
>>>> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new
>>>> ones?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any insights.
>>>> charliec
>>>
>>>
>>>There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the tabs
>>>as
>>>the links and pop-ups are encountered.
>>>
>>>Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section
>>>for
>>>Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
>>>deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
>>>options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked our
>>>unchecked, you may need to restart IE.
>>>
>>>
>> Ok, I went there and on the Tabs Section under "When a new tab is open,
>> Open:", I changed
>> it to "Your First Home Page". Hopefully that will do it and not open many
>> tabs. I'll see
>> how it goes.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
>That's not the setting to do what you asked. When YOU open a new tab, that
>setting will send you to a new instance of your own First Homepage instead
>of taking you to a blank page. Personally, I like this setting and this is
>how I have IE set because I don't like a blank page for some reason. My
>First Homepage is Yahoo, and I prefer this to the others. I like the search
>engine that it has built in. I run IE with no add-ons because I don't like
>the performance loss when I am not utelizing the feature that the add-on
>brings. I prefer to start whatever the add-on does when I actually want it
>to run. I have fiber optic internet, so I have more than enough speed to
>start anything I want when I want, and am never bothered by stuff bogging my
>machine down.
>
>But, back to you...
>
>That setting does nothing for handling links that you have clicked on. You
>want to make selections from within WHEN A POP-UP IS ENCOUNTERED:, and OPEN
>LINKS FROM OTHER PROGRAMS IN:
>
>Beyond the annoyance of opening tabs, I'm not sure what the problem is. Just
>select the tab you are not interested in anymore, and click the X in the
>corner of the tab to close it and not close all of IE. You can also click
>the X on the top of the window and close IE and all open tabs, all at the
>same time. I frequently go through and close individual tabs.
>
>Think of tabs like doors in your house. You move from one room to the next,
>and open a door. When you leave the room, you close the door. You do not
>take the door off of the hinge, nor do you nail the door closed because both
>of these options pretty much kill the purpose of having a door in the first
>place. When you go into a new room, and there is a door to look behind, you
>don't blame the door for remaining open, you just close it when you are
>done.
>
>
>

Thanks Jeff - appreciate your response.

Let ask you a couple of questions: In Tools/Internet Options/Tabs/Settings, what do you
have set for the following;

- When a new tab is opened: open: "where?"
- Open links from other programs, in: "where?"

Thanks for any input

charliec

This is all really just a matter of taste, but have you
considered disabling tabs? I do that with every browser.
I set for links to open in the same window, then right-
click "open in new window" when I want that. Personally
I find that more manageable, and the windows are always
visible in the taskbar with part of the window title. I find
that with tabs it's just too easy to leave them open and
lose track of them.
In essence it's really the same thing. I suppose one could
say that it's really a choice between tabs in your browser
window or tabs on the taskbar.

<> wrote in message
news:...
> >On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:50:59 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
> ><> wrote:
>
>>
>><> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> >On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
>>> ><> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>><> wrote in message
>>>>news: m...
>>>>>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a
>>>>>page,
>>>>>particularly if I
>>>>> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is
>>>>> it
>>>>> possible to set
>>>>> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new
>>>>> ones?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any insights.
>>>>> charliec
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the
>>>>tabs
>>>>as
>>>>the links and pop-ups are encountered.
>>>>
>>>>Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section
>>>>for
>>>>Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
>>>>deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
>>>>options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked
>>>>our
>>>>unchecked, you may need to restart IE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ok, I went there and on the Tabs Section under "When a new tab is open,
>>> Open:", I changed
>>> it to "Your First Home Page". Hopefully that will do it and not open
>>> many
>>> tabs. I'll see
>>> how it goes.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>That's not the setting to do what you asked. When YOU open a new tab, that
>>setting will send you to a new instance of your own First Homepage instead
>>of taking you to a blank page. Personally, I like this setting and this is
>>how I have IE set because I don't like a blank page for some reason. My
>>First Homepage is Yahoo, and I prefer this to the others. I like the
>>search
>>engine that it has built in. I run IE with no add-ons because I don't like
>>the performance loss when I am not utelizing the feature that the add-on
>>brings. I prefer to start whatever the add-on does when I actually want it
>>to run. I have fiber optic internet, so I have more than enough speed to
>>start anything I want when I want, and am never bothered by stuff bogging
>>my
>>machine down.
>>
>>But, back to you...
>>
>>That setting does nothing for handling links that you have clicked on. You
>>want to make selections from within WHEN A POP-UP IS ENCOUNTERED:, and
>>OPEN
>>LINKS FROM OTHER PROGRAMS IN:
>>
>>Beyond the annoyance of opening tabs, I'm not sure what the problem is.
>>Just
>>select the tab you are not interested in anymore, and click the X in the
>>corner of the tab to close it and not close all of IE. You can also click
>>the X on the top of the window and close IE and all open tabs, all at the
>>same time. I frequently go through and close individual tabs.
>>
>>Think of tabs like doors in your house. You move from one room to the
>>next,
>>and open a door. When you leave the room, you close the door. You do not
>>take the door off of the hinge, nor do you nail the door closed because
>>both
>>of these options pretty much kill the purpose of having a door in the
>>first
>>place. When you go into a new room, and there is a door to look behind,
>>you
>>don't blame the door for remaining open, you just close it when you are
>>done.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Jeff - appreciate your response.
>
> Let ask you a couple of questions: In Tools/Internet
> Options/Tabs/Settings, what do you
> have set for the following;
>
> - When a new tab is opened: open: "where?"
> - Open links from other programs, in: "where?"
>
> Thanks for any input
>
> charliec

When a pop-up is encountered,
Let IE decide

Open links from other programs
A new tab in the current window

"Mayayana" <> wrote in message
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> This is all really just a matter of taste, but have you
> considered disabling tabs? I do that with every browser.
> I set for links to open in the same window, then right-
> click "open in new window" when I want that. Personally
> I find that more manageable, and the windows are always
> visible in the taskbar with part of the window title. I find
> that with tabs it's just too easy to leave them open and
> lose track of them.
> In essence it's really the same thing. I suppose one could
> say that it's really a choice between tabs in your browser
> window or tabs on the taskbar.
>
>

Easy to lose track of them? Really? I have six tabs open at this moment,
they are clearly displayed across the top of the window. I move among these
tabs easily. I open additional tabs as the session demands, then close them
again, keeping the main tabs that I use open. I frequently have a dozen tabs
open. It's easy to keep track. Each one is labelled with its contents.

To be perfectly honest, I resisted Tabbed Browsing for a long time. My
brother tried to get me hooked on FireFox mostly because it had tabbed
browsing years ahead of IE. I was not impressed. I eventually caved, and
made the nump from IE6 to IE8, created several home pages that all open in a
separate tab when IE starts. I cannot imagine life without tabs now. I still
do not like FireFox, but tabbed browsing is a necessity for me. Tabbed
Browsing is not even remotely the same as opening several instances of IE,
and then jumping among them. Tabs, several of them, takes far few resources,
so you can have many of them open and not feel the impact. I occasionally
have internet radio on one tab while I do other tasks in other tabs at the
same time.

>On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:28:00 -0800, "Jeff Strickland" <> wrote:

>
><> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> >On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:50:59 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
>> ><> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>><> wrote in message
>>>news: ...
>>>> >On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:08:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
>>>> ><> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>><> wrote in message
>>>>>news: om...
>>>>>>I have IE8 and noticed that many tabs are left open when I leave a
>>>>>>page,
>>>>>>particularly if I
>>>>>> get to an open IE8 by clicking a shortcut from some other program. Is
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> possible to set
>>>>>> IE8 to open new tabs in the current open tab instead of opening new
>>>>>> ones?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any insights.
>>>>>> charliec
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>There are several settings on how to handle links and pop-ups in the
>>>>>tabs
>>>>>as
>>>>>the links and pop-ups are encountered.
>>>>>
>>>>>Click TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS, under the General Tab, there is a section
>>>>>for
>>>>>Tabs, click the SETTINGS button. Place or remove the checks, select or
>>>>>deselect the radio buttons, fill the drop down boxes, for the various
>>>>>options you want. Click Apply. Depending on the boxes you have checked
>>>>>our
>>>>>unchecked, you may need to restart IE.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Ok, I went there and on the Tabs Section under "When a new tab is open,
>>>> Open:", I changed
>>>> it to "Your First Home Page". Hopefully that will do it and not open
>>>> many
>>>> tabs. I'll see
>>>> how it goes.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>That's not the setting to do what you asked. When YOU open a new tab, that
>>>setting will send you to a new instance of your own First Homepage instead
>>>of taking you to a blank page. Personally, I like this setting and this is
>>>how I have IE set because I don't like a blank page for some reason. My
>>>First Homepage is Yahoo, and I prefer this to the others. I like the
>>>search
>>>engine that it has built in. I run IE with no add-ons because I don't like
>>>the performance loss when I am not utelizing the feature that the add-on
>>>brings. I prefer to start whatever the add-on does when I actually want it
>>>to run. I have fiber optic internet, so I have more than enough speed to
>>>start anything I want when I want, and am never bothered by stuff bogging
>>>my
>>>machine down.
>>>
>>>But, back to you...
>>>
>>>That setting does nothing for handling links that you have clicked on. You
>>>want to make selections from within WHEN A POP-UP IS ENCOUNTERED:, and
>>>OPEN
>>>LINKS FROM OTHER PROGRAMS IN:
>>>
>>>Beyond the annoyance of opening tabs, I'm not sure what the problem is.
>>>Just
>>>select the tab you are not interested in anymore, and click the X in the
>>>corner of the tab to close it and not close all of IE. You can also click
>>>the X on the top of the window and close IE and all open tabs, all at the
>>>same time. I frequently go through and close individual tabs.
>>>
>>>Think of tabs like doors in your house. You move from one room to the
>>>next,
>>>and open a door. When you leave the room, you close the door. You do not
>>>take the door off of the hinge, nor do you nail the door closed because
>>>both
>>>of these options pretty much kill the purpose of having a door in the
>>>first
>>>place. When you go into a new room, and there is a door to look behind,
>>>you
>>>don't blame the door for remaining open, you just close it when you are
>>>done.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Jeff - appreciate your response.
>>
>> Let ask you a couple of questions: In Tools/Internet
>> Options/Tabs/Settings, what do you
>> have set for the following;
>>
>> - When a new tab is opened: open: "where?"
>> - Open links from other programs, in: "where?"
>>
>> Thanks for any input
>>
>> charliec
>
>When a pop-up is encountered,
>Let IE decide
>
>Open links from other programs
>A new tab in the current window
>
>
>

Thanks for the reply. But, I think you miss read my 1st question: It was "When a new tab
is opened: open: (where)? Not "When a pop-up is encountered". So, what setting do you
have for "when a new tab is opened..."?

Thanks
charliec

| Tabs, several of them, takes far few resources,
| so you can have many of them open and not feel the impact.

It may seem that way, but the main bulk is the
browser window. The frame isn't much. And I haven't
been in a situation where I had to worry about
resources. I only have one pair of eyes and one
mind; I can only read one webpage at a time.
So unless I'm in the heat of research I don't see
a need for more than 1, 2, or maybe 3 active
browser windows. That's just sloppy housekeeping.

Come to think of it, I can't think of anything that
I would prefer to have in multi-document-interface
mode, other than a graphic editor. I like having open
windows arrayed on the taskbar.

But, to each their own. I was only offering a reminder
that one doesn't *have* to use browser tabs, simply
because they're in fashion.