How to Open a Link in a NEW tab with IE7

[mike2rc]

:confused: I use IE7 with tabbed browsing. How do you open a completely new tab from a link say on my home page without wiping out my home page? I've done before...then I had to format and forgot how to make that setting.

Thanks,
Mike

[themanwhowas]

not sure that i fully understand what you're asking but with IE7 holding ctrl when you click a link opens that link in a new tab in the background. holding ctrl+shift and clicking a link opens a new tab in the foreground

[mike2rc]

:D Thanks...that was the quick tip I forgot.

Mike

[SpywareDr]

You can also click it using the mouse wheel and it will open in a new tab. (Works in IE and Firefox).

[Steve R Jones]

See the pic in my post in this thread. Maybe I have a magic copy of IE7, but I don't have to hold down anything to get a new tab;)

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=223471

[SpywareDr]

FWIW, set my IE7 exactly as yours and tried it: Went to http://www.google.com, left-clicked the 'Images' link at the top left and it loaded http://images.google.com/imghp?tab=wi ... in the same tab.


Left-clicked IE7's Back button to take me back to http://www.google.com


Clicked the same 'Images' link using the 'mouse scroll wheel' this time and IE7 opened a new tab with the http://images.google.com/imghp?tab=wi page in it.Also tried the same test with Firefox 2.0.0.6 and got the exact same results.

[Steve R Jones]

Same here.
If you do a simple left click on any of your links in the post above, do you get a new tab? (i do)

[SpywareDr]

Well yes, but, that's because VirtualDr adds a:target="_blank" to all of the:<a href"links in our messages.

That's why I was using Google as an example, because it doesn't have the:target="_blank" added to its:<a href"links.