[SOLVED] win 8 + ie 10 + tabs = cone fusion

Temmu · Aug 9, 2013

greets!

i love the win 8 user interface!¹²
so, log onto an unmodified windows 8 pc, find internet explorer... o, there it is! go to google, enter a search term. r. click a link, open in new tab. and another and another. um, where did the tabs go??
the answer?
r click a blank part to the html and voila'! there are your pages shown as 200x300 rectangles above the page where the original links are.
wow! that's sooooo intuitive!
i thought that "open in a new tab" meant just that - that a new tab would pop open on top of the page.
change is good, luddites!

note
1 - can you feel the sarcasm?
2 - you can fix win 8 interface by installing "classic shell" which gives you a start button + the desktop at start.

Corrine · Aug 9, 2013

That would be a problem for me since my home/start page is to open 14 specific tabs. From there, numerous tabs are opened/closed throughout the day. There is a solution, though, although it may not work with Windows 8 and IE10. I found this for Windows 8.1, IE11: How to Keep Tabs, Address Bar Visible in IE 11?

Wrench97 · Aug 9, 2013

Run IE 10 from the Win 8 desktop :)

Temmu · Aug 10, 2013

thx, corrine.
thx, wrench97.
my fix was "classic shell" but was still frustrated by a friend's win 8 app-first machine.

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[SOLVED] win 8 + ie 10 + tabs = cone fusion

Temmu

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[SOLVED] win 8 + ie 10 + tabs = cone fusion

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