Ie Windows Problem

[paulfr]

I just cannot sseem to find the right switch or setting

option to solve this annoying problem.......

I usually have 3-5 windows open while surfing the web.

But when I decide to go to a new site, I cannot tell which

of my open windows is going to go to this new URL.

I end up losing a site/window I wanted to continue to use.

It seems to be the last window that changed that is chosen.

So what I have to do is find the least needed site/window and

alt-tab to it, then Back or Fwd to change it, then click the desired new URL.

Then I get to keep the sites I want in their active windows.

One solution is to have a new window opened whenever you

click on a new site. But I cannot find a setting/switch for this.

There may be other solutions ..... any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks

[Crushdepth]

If you try Mozilla (amongst others) you can right click on a link and then you have an option to either open it in a new window, or in a new 'tab' in your current browser.

And it has a popup blocker, worth it for that alone...

www.mozilla.org

[Axel]

At home I use IE and a 56 K modem. So it makes sense to open a couple of windows at the same time.

Every time I first open IE anew to avoid overriding, although, e.g. ThaiVisa-links open automatically a new one.

Sny link I do open with "Open in Neww Window".

[rss]

SHIFT+Click works in IE and Opera and possibly Mozilla as well.

[Highwayman]

Paul, another reason for switching to Firefox. Tabbed browsing etc. makes it simple to do what you are asking.

[francois]

hi´

yo :

right ... switch to Firefox

the best of the moment

happy with it, I still use netscape 7.2 ... but Firefox is a bit faster, just a bit

cheers

francois

[RDN]

Paul, another reason for switching to Firefox. Tabbed browsing etc. makes it simple to do what you are asking.

Go here to learn about firefox - it's better than IE. Really.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/switch.html

[kandt]

Obviously, Firefox or Gozilla might be better but by and large IE has the same functions if you spent a little time exploring it. The right click with the mouse also works in IE, but surely it doesn't have the tab function.

Cheers........kandt

[RDN]

Obviously, Firefox or Gozilla might be better but by and large IE has the same functions if you spent a little time exploring it. The right click with the mouse also works in IE, but surely it doesn't have the tab function.

Cheers........kandt 

I thought I read somewhere that the new XP SP2 had a new version of IE with "tabbed browsing". Is that not true?

PS. I would certainly try IE if tabbed browsing was added, but until that happens, I will stay with Firefox.

[francois]

hi'

the "so called" version shiped with Sp2 ... has a major security hole, it allows through activeX to add some BOE(buffer overflow) into your system ..

and no patch from MS yet

don't use IE !

Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape are far better

cheers

francois

[francois]

hi'

just an add to what I said earlier ...

no need for any script ... take a look at this :

Security in IE

it's dated from 2002 ... and this had never been patched by MS, even for IE6

a good example of MS security plans

cheers

francois