IE7 - Opening Multiple Tabs on Startup

[rickd]

I happend to notice another nice feature of the new IE7 browser tonight. It has to do with the new 'tabs' feature. Let's say you have 5 tabs open displaying 5 different websites. When you want to close the browser by clicking on the red 'X' in the top right-hand corner, you should see a window open asking "do you want to close all tabs"?

In the same window, there is a check box which says "open these the next time I use IE". If you check that box, and then click 'close all tabs', the next time you start IE7, all 5 of the websites that were open when you closed, will reopen in new tabs.

I've found this very useful as I'm usually switching back and forth between 6-10 websites all the time. It's nice to be able to open them with just one click. It works great!

And I know, before you FF afficianados jump all over me, that FF has a similar feature called 'grouped tabs' which allows you to specify which websites to start on launch of the browser.

Rick

[JR]

Thanks for the tip, Rick. I hadn't noticed that.

JR

[KenBurris]

jome page tabs

i've found that you can open several tabs,then click on the down arrow next to the "Home(page)" icon, select "add or change home page", then select one of four options - such as " use the current tab set as your home page". When i fire up IE7, i get local newspaper, BT3, CNN,and ESPN tabs opened and ready for my morning.

probably not news to a lot of you.

[rickd]

Hi Ken,

The 'mulitple home page' feature is great - I use it too. I love it in the morning as all my favorite pages open with a single click.

Another feature of the 'tabs' is that you can create any number of tabbed 'favorite' groups that you want. It works much as you described for home pages - just open a bunch of tab sites, click on the 'add to favorites'; 'add tab group' to favorites, name and save it in the folder you want and that's it.

You can now click on favorites and open a whole group of websites with one click.

Rick

[ElRay]

Hate to bust your bubble ...

I hate to burst your bubble, but these features have been around for literally years in other browsers that are more standards compliant and have pretty much no security holes (those that do exist either didn't have any real exploits, or relied on the user doing something stupid to function) . Heck, IE7 wasn't out for more than a day or two before it was hit by a zero day exploit.

For your own safety, use a different browser.

[rickd]

I hate to burst your bubble, but these features have been around for literally years in other browsers that are more standards compliant and have pretty much no security holes (those that do exist either didn't have any real exploits, or relied on the user doing something stupid to function) . Heck, IE7 wasn't out for more than a day or two before it was hit by a zero day exploit.

For your own safety, use a different browser.

Elray,

Thanks for the advice - but, no thanks, I'll stick with IE7 just like 84% of the Internet community has decided to do, o.k.

As for the IE7 security issue you bring up, the answer is very simple. It's not that FF, Opera or other browsers are inherently more secure than IE7, it's simply a matter of hackers not bothering with browsers that have such a miniscule share of the market - Firefox is the only one over 10%(about 12%).

So, why would any 'self-respecting' hacker bother to waste all their effort on small potatoes when the 'big-dog' is IE7. If the situation were reversed, then hackers would be targeting FF and others and they would be experiencing the same difficulties that Microsoft faces. The only difference is that they do not have the resources to fight back like MS and would likely collapse under the attacks.

As for 'bubbles bursting', I am quite aware of other browsers introducing new features - they have to do that to stay alive! However, until FF can start to properly display a lot of the websites I, and others, visit, maybe they should concentrate on basics for a while and forget the 'bells and whistles'. It just might help increase their marketshare.