Interner Explorer under Vista

Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.

But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
Explorer.
Some open in a new Tab

Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites for
info.

But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance of IE.
Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I wanted
to view.

So...my question is.
How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new instance
of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?

please and thank you.

if there is a better forum for this question, please advise

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Mr GRiM

FireBrick;857337 Wrote:
> Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.
>
> But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
> Explorer.
> Some open in a new Tab
>
> Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites
> for
> info.
>
> But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance
> of IE.
> Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I
> wanted
> to view.
>
> So...my question is.
> How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new
> instance
> of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?
>
> please and thank you.
>
> if there is a better forum for this question, please advise

Hi,

To return to the previous instance, try clicking the back button at top
left of IE. You can adjust the settings from Tools>Internet
Options>General tab, and click the Settings button in the Tabs section.

Hope this helps

SIW2


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SIW2

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.
>
> But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
> Explorer.
> Some open in a new Tab
>
> Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites
> for info.
>
> But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance
> of IE.
> Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I
> wanted to view.
>
> So...my question is.
> How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new
> instance of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?
>
> please and thank you.
>
> if there is a better forum for this question, please advise

To get a new tab press 'Ctrl' when clicking on a link .

Tom

ah
the press Control when clicking on a link was the answer I was hoping for.

I may not have explained myself clearly enough.
For instance.
If in ebay, looking at something I have for sale, I then wanted to go to
Paypal to pay for it, the ebay page would close and then PayPal site would
come up.
back button would NOT return it.
That instance of IE now only had one page, the PayPal page.

So what I was asking was, that if I'm looking at a IE page, and now want to
ALSO open another page to compare products or whatever, that it would not
remove the origianal page but add a new tab.
but thank you for the ctrl hint


"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.
>
> But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
> Explorer.
> Some open in a new Tab
>
> Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites for
> info.
>
> But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance of
> IE.
> Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I
> wanted to view.
>
> So...my question is.
> How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new
> instance of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?
>
> please and thank you.
>
> if there is a better forum for this question, please advise

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.
>
> But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
> Explorer.
> Some open in a new Tab
>
> Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites for
> info.
>
> But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance of
> IE.
> Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I
> wanted to view.
>
> So...my question is.
> How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new
> instance of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?
>
> please and thank you.
>
> if there is a better forum for this question, please advise


Some of it is the HTML and IE is just following instructions e.g.:

<a href=www.somesite.com target="_blank">

Where target="_blank" instructs IE to open the link in a new window.

You can go to Internet Options in the Control Panel (classic view) and under
the General tab find the Tab settings and adjust how you want the tabs to
behave.

Saucy

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> ah
> the press Control when clicking on a link was the answer I was hoping for.
>
> I may not have explained myself clearly enough.
> For instance.
> If in ebay, looking at something I have for sale, I then wanted to go to
> Paypal to pay for it, the ebay page would close and then PayPal site would
> come up.
> back button would NOT return it.
> That instance of IE now only had one page, the PayPal page.
>
> So what I was asking was, that if I'm looking at a IE page, and now want
> to ALSO open another page to compare products or whatever, that it would
> not remove the origianal page but add a new tab.
> but thank you for the ctrl hint
>
>
> "FireBrick" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hope this is the correct forum to ask this.
>>
>> But some links/shortcuts I go to open in a NEW instance of Internet
>> Explorer.
>> Some open in a new Tab
>>
>> Both of these options is OK as I frequently am checking multiple sites
>> for info.
>>
>> But, some links/shortcuts just simply overwrite the existing instance of
>> IE.
>> Closing the previously open tab and replacing it with the new page I
>> wanted to view.
>>
>> So...my question is.
>> How can I ALWAYS make a link or shortcut open in a new Tab or a new
>> instance of IE and not remove a window or page I want to return to?
>>
>> please and thank you.
>>
>> if there is a better forum for this question, please advise
>


Right-click on *any* regular link and select "Open in New Tab". Also, many
wheel mouses enable you to click straight down on the wheel [as if the wheel
were a middle button]. If you do that over a link it is the same as
right-clicking and selecting "Open in New Tab".

Saucy