Tabs in IE9

How do I set IE9 so that each time I enter a new website into the web
window, it opens in a new Tab? Currently, the new window loads on top of the
existing Tab. I’ve searched everywhere. Ctrl-Enter doesn’t do it. Firefox
offers it as a check-box item. I couldn’t find such a thing in IE9. Thanks
for any help!

Dan Kap,
Whittier, CA

 

You have to open a tab then enter the address you want it to display. Well,
I don't know that you HAVE to do that, but that's the way I do it. My New
Tab is set to open the First Home Page, then I enter the destination that I
want to visit.

How do you expect IE to know that you want a new tab with each new address?
Sometimes you want the old tab to display a new address, and sometimes you
want a new tab. How does IE know what you want for any given input of an
address?

 

Hi, Jeff. Thanks for your reply. I tried your method and it does work. But
why should I have to go through a whole extra step to accomplish that? And
half the time, I'd forget to open a new, empty tab anyway. What a pain.

How do I expect IE to know that I want a new tab with each new address? My
answer is that there should be a check-box which allows a default new window
to open every time, for each web address I enter. That's the way I liiike
it, uh-huh, uh-huh, as the song goes. Firefox has that option; if I can't do
something as basic as that in IE9, no reason to change to IE9. That feature
is that important to me. Again, thanks for the reply.

Dan

"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message

You have to open a tab then enter the address you want it to display. Well,
I don't know that you HAVE to do that, but that's the way I do it. My New
Tab is set to open the First Home Page, then I enter the destination that I
want to visit.

How do you expect IE to know that you want a new tab with each new address?
Sometimes you want the old tab to display a new address, and sometimes you
want a new tab. How does IE know what you want for any given input of an
address?

 

What's the point of tabbed browsing IF the window you are in is closed and
then used for the new address? All versions of IE have always done that. You
type in an address, and the site you are currently visiting is taken away.
Formerly, you had to start a new instance of IE and then input the new
address, then you could switch from one instance to another if you wanted to
keep the original site available. Now, you simply open a new tab, then
switch among the tabs you have open.

Do you want IE to just automatically assume that because you are going to a
new Website, then it should display the result in a new tab and keep the
contents of the original tab available? I can't imagine that is a useful
feature. I hate when my browser makes these kinds of assumptions. I have
three homepages that each opens in its own tab, and I switch among them
depending on the content I want. I always want that content, and sometimes I
want more so I open a new tab for the new content then input the address I
want for it. Eventually I close the tab because the content is no longer
needed, but the first three tabs are never more than a click away, and any
new site is never more than two clicks away -- one to open the tab and one
to select the address bar.

Having said all of that. since IE9 only works with versions of Windows later
than XP, and there are no worthwhile versions later than XP, you may as well
get IE9 if your machine will run it.

 

You cannot set it permanently but each time you want to open a new tab
from an entry in the web window, use Alt+Enter

....Alan

 

Dan,

There is a little "blank" tab to the right of the open tabs. Click on that
one to open a new tab and then type in your URL.

Also click Tools | Internet Options. Enable Tabbed Browsing has a lot of
options:
When a new tab is opened...
When a pop-up is encountered...

Hope that helps.

Now I have a question of my own.

The tabs are on top of the Menu Bar and they are semi-transparent which
makes them hard to see. I thought they were under the Menu Bar in IE8 and
I'd like to move them there but can't figure out how to do that.

If I have just forgotten where they were in IE8 then I'd at least like to
make them opaque to make them easier to see.

Any help?

Thanks in advance!



Kathy
aka smiley
In God We Trust
"Dan Kap" wrote in message
How do I set IE9 so that each time I enter a new website into the web
window, it opens in a new Tab? Currently, the new window loads on top of the
existing Tab. I’ve searched everywhere. Ctrl-Enter doesn’t do it. Firefox
offers it as a check-box item. I couldn’t find such a thing in IE9. Thanks
for any help!

Dan Kap,
Whittier, CA

 

Right-click on the menu area and select "Show tabs on a separate row." Is
that what you're looking for? I don't use the menu bar, but I do have the
Command bar showing, which is customizable (to a degree).

 

After 4 months, it's not likely the OP is still waiting for a reply.