IE7...Why bother

[Doug]

Since installing IE7, I have noticed that many (most ) web pages open a new session of IE rather than exploiting the tab thingo of v7.
IIS is no exception; eg, I looked in on the thread alerting to an article on the Vixen portamount this morning. When I clicked on the link to view this article, instead of opening a new tab, I had a second IE7 open up. Have I missed something in the setup or are tabs only user accessible? Should web pages\s/w be updated to exploit IE7 or what?

puzzled,
Doug

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

If you want to change Tab behaviour:

Tools: Internet Options: General (Tab): Tab Settings: "Always Open Pop-Ups in New Tab"

Links like the one you chose to look at the Vixen mount are probably treated as new pages ("target=newpagename") in this site's HTML code. The browser is only doing what it is told, for once.

[Doug]

Thanks Chris, that popup setting seems to have done the trick. I thought popups were just those annoying adds you get sometimes. I changed the popup settings as per your advise and tried it out on that vixen article link and it opened a new tab.

thanks,
Doug

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

No worries Doug

Did you see the other setting there that makes new tabs appear adjacent to your current tab, and not all the way over to the right? It's on by default anyway - but worth having a play with to see what's most intuitive for yourself.

Cheers
Chris

[ving (David)]

or stick to firefox

is there nothing you dont know chris

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by ving

or stick to firefox

is there nothing you dont know chris

dunno...

[Ric]

Thanks Chris, I was wondering about that as well.

cheers

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

I am a long time Firefox user and I can say that the new Firefox 2 is a real pain. Lost bookmarks, won't open/close properly, crashes and stalls.

Stay with older Firefox 1.5.8, I think it was.

[vindictive666 (John)]

{I am a long time Firefox user and I can say that the new Firefox 2 is a real pain. Lost bookmarks, won't open/close properly, crashes and stalls.

Stay with older Firefox 1.5.8, I think it was.}


ive been using firefox 2 ever since its been out no lost anything even installed over the old version however i use a proggie called mozilla backup it does mozilla thunderbird as well so any probs at least i wont lose any book marks or emails cool proggie

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Yep, I also use mozbackup extension as well. This time I didn't do a "backup" prior to install...bad mistake.

Thunderbird also collapsed. I cannot point the finger at but I suspect the Firefox update had an influence with this. I had to restore from mozbackp, lost about 1 months of e-mails but no addresses, thankfully.

[vindictive666 (John)]

i dont use the exstension of mozilla backup i use the standalone proggie ?

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

ahhh you are correct, i use mozbackup standalone program, it's not an extension:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

[ving (David)]

been using firefox2 for quite a while too... no problems