Opened Elly's email with the three links for the last three BOMs. Clicked on a link and expected a new window to open. Nope. It opened in the Internet Explorer I already had open, but in a new tab. Clicked on the second link. Opened in an additional tab instead of "overwriting" the first link. And then the third link opened in its own little tab also.
I always disliked the situation when the old Outlook Express would open the links over each other reusing the same window.
I think this is actually a feature of whatever version of Internet Explorer they started doing that in, which was a fairly recent version, though it's possible that an older version of OE wasn't able to utilise that, but I know there definitely was a time when I was still using OE, when the behaviour you describe wasn't happening and I agree, it was a very annoying situation, I think you could set up to open every link in a new window, before tabs were a feature, but things tended to get a little crazy, even now with tabs, if you have an old computer or you are running anything else, there is still the potential for things spiraling out of control! Or maybe it's just me that's using Vista on an ancient laptop (it's actually an old microsoft company laptop that was replaced because it really is too slow to do any development work on, I really must get round to picking out what laptop I want as this one has a great big hole where there should be a CD or DVD drive and it's getting rather annoying!).
Haven't noticed mine doing this automatically, but DH (my private techie) taught me to hold down the Shift key before clicking on links. That will open a new tab instead of replacing the existing window. Roberta in D
"Kay Ahr" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:g07ov0$sb5$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org...
Well, it's an option.. so if you like the way it works now you should check on the settings. As Anne pointed out, OE uses the same options you have set for Internet Explorer. If, like me, you don't use Internet Explorer (maybe you like Mozilla Firefox, or Netscape, or even.... gasp! AOL) - then you may not even know what the settings for Internet Explorer are.
Under Tools, in Outlook Express, choose Options. On the 'connections' tab you should see some text at the bottom telling you OE shares the same internet options as Internet Explorer, and to click the Change button to modify them.
If you click 'change' it sends you to the preferences menu for Internet Explorer. On the 'general' tab you should see text on the bottom that allow you to set the options for tabbed browsing.
If tabbed browsing is not enabled, most likely OE will reuse the window. That's because the default Internet Explorer setting for browsing (under the 'advanced' tab) is to 'reuse windows when launching shortcuts(when tabbed browsing is off)'.
InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here.
All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.