IE7 New Tab Opening NOT User-Friendly

Posted: 12-09-2006, 05:07 PM

BiggsHomes

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New Tab opening sequences are not user-friendly. When I right-click on a
link and select Open in New Tab, the new tab is not active. I have to click
on the tab to look at it. This is a useless mouse click. Obviously I want
to look at the new tab immediately, or I wouldn't have clicked on it. The
same goes with Ctrl-click. Why should I have to hold Shift AND Ctrl to open
a new tab in the foreground?

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Mike Ketchen

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Re: IE7 New Tab Opening NOT User-Friendly

Posted: 12-09-2006, 05:17 PM

Go to the Tools menu, select Internet Options, find the Settings button for
Tabs (about 4/5ths of the way down the settings window), check "Always
switch to new tabs when they are created", and click OK twice. HTH.

Mike

"BiggsHomes" <BiggsHomes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> New Tab opening sequences are not user-friendly. When I right-click on a
> link and select Open in New Tab, the new tab is not active. I have to
> click
> on the tab to look at it. This is a useless mouse click. Obviously I
> want
> to look at the new tab immediately, or I wouldn't have clicked on it. The
> same goes with Ctrl-click. Why should I have to hold Shift AND Ctrl to
> open
> a new tab in the foreground?
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general

Robert Moir

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Re: IE7 New Tab Opening NOT User-Friendly

Posted: 12-09-2006, 07:34 PM

BiggsHomes wrote:

> New Tab opening sequences are not user-friendly. When I right-click
> on a link and select Open in New Tab, the new tab is not active. I
> have to click on the tab to look at it. This is a useless mouse
> click. Obviously I want to look at the new tab immediately, or I
> wouldn't have clicked on it.

Just goes to show that it depends on the user. When I'm reading an article
and it links off to other articles for further reading, I click the links as
I see ones I want to read, so they are all opened up ready for me, but I
finish the article I'm currently reading before I switch to a new one.

In any case, I'm there is a switch you can change as Mike mentions, so we're
both happy I guess!

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