Forced to IE7

I have been recently (and unfortunately) forced to go to IE7 by my computer.  The details behind it are not important to this post, as I can do most of the things I need to in FF anyway (and much prefer it).  I prefer IE6 to IE7.

After having been in IE7 for a week now, there is one incredibly irritating "feature."  Links that open in new windows don't open in new tabs (which would be the expected behavior of a tabbed browser.  It works in FF, Safari, etc.  Why didn't MS get this right the first time?  I suppose Mozilla didn't either, since that feature only appeared in v2 of FF, but MS, get with it...

OK.  Rant over.  I've searched through the settings like a madman, and haven't been able to find anything about changing this behavior.  Am I missing something, or am I doomed to 35 IE windows open when I need 1?

 

Print | posted on Monday, August 06, 2007 3:49 AM

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# re: Forced to IE7

left by thorkia at 8/6/2007 4:04 AM Gravatar
This is solved pretty easily....

It's a typical MS blunder...

Click on tools then Internet options. Under general options, look for the section called Tabs and click on the Settings button.

From there, set the option to open links from other programs to new tab in existing window. For some reason this fixes the link problem on my PC

# re: Forced to IE7

left by Martin Hinshelwood at 8/6/2007 4:34 AM Gravatar
I have had to allow this original behaviour in work as some of the windoes opening in tabs kills my computer. This is due to my companys backward intranet!

# re: Forced to IE7

left by fcmmaddog at 8/6/2007 4:34 AM Gravatar
there's also an option to open popups in new tabs inside the same dialog....

# re: Forced to IE7

left by Justin at 8/6/2007 5:29 AM Gravatar
May I point this out <img src="http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/531/ie7tabsuy9.gif"/>

I hope this allows the img tag, if not here is the link http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/531/ie7tabsuy9.gif
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