Home page in new tab using IE7

[ggrothendieck]

On Windows Vista using IE7 if I press ctrl-T for a new tab I get
about:blank rather than
the home page in the new tab even though I set "Open home page for new
tabs
instead of a blank page" under
Tools | General | Internet Options | Tabs

If I click on the Home page icon the home page comes up in a new
window. If
I create a link in the Links Toolbar it does the same thing except it
also gives me
a message that its placing it in a new window since it has a different
security level.

How can I get my home page to appear in a new tab? I was able to do
that under XP
using IE7. I gather it thinks there is a security issue. How do I
circumvent this.

 

[Saucy]

Have you adjusted the security zones at any point?

Saucy

 

[ggrothendieck]

I had to turn off UAC temporarily when installing an XP program
that was written prior to XP and will not install properly with Vista
user accounts but I turned UAC back on after I was finished and
other than that have not touched security.

 

[Saucy]

Well, usually when you first use a tab in IE7, the new tab opens with a
built in page that explains tab browsing with an option to take you to your
home page and never show that introduction page again [or something like
that]. I thought if you had turned off scripting or somesuch that might have
frigged a bit.

Anyway, have you tried the "Restore defaults" button? Then go from there?

Saucy

 

[ggrothendieck]

I meant it was written prior to Vista.

I had to turn off UAC temporarily when installing an XP program
that was written prior to XP and will not install properly with Vista
user accounts but I turned UAC back on after I was finished and
other than that have not touched security.



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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?JethroUK=A9?=]

Have you checked out the blank page?

It' a tutorial on using tabs - you have to choose 'don't show me this
again' - then it will open as web page

 

[ggrothendieck]

I think you are referring to about:tabs whereas I get about:blank .
I have read all the material on the about:tabs page though. As
I indicated in my first post I did choose that option but I still
don't get the home page in a separate tab. I was able to
configure this just the way I want under XP but not under
Vista even though I use IE7 in both.

 

[ggrothendieck]

I tried doing clicking Restore in the tabs Internet Option screen,
restarting IE7 and setting up the option to open the home
page in a tab all over again but its still giving me the same
behavior.

Well, usually when you first use a tab in IE7, the new tab opens with a
built in page that explains tab browsing with an option to take you to your
home page and never show that introduction page again [or something like
that]. I thought if you had turned off scripting or somesuch that might have
frigged a bit.

Anyway, have you tried the "Restore defaults" button? Then go from there?

Saucy

I had to turn off UAC temporarily when installing an XP program
that was written prior to XP and will not install properly with Vista
user accounts but I turned UAC back on after I was finished and
other than that have not touched security.

 

[John Barnes]

If you aren't getting the answer you want here, post your problem on the
internetexplorer group.

I think you are referring to about:tabs whereas I get about:blank .
I have read all the material on the about:tabs page though. As
I indicated in my first post I did choose that option but I still
don't get the home page in a separate tab. I was able to
configure this just the way I want under XP but not under
Vista even though I use IE7 in both.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?JethroUK=A9?=]

I don't think IE7 has a group - just IE6

If you aren't getting the answer you want here, post your problem on the
internetexplorer group.

I think you are referring to about:tabs whereas I get about:blank .
I have read all the material on the about:tabs page though. As
I indicated in my first post I did choose that option but I still
don't get the home page in a separate tab. I was able to
configure this just the way I want under XP but not under
Vista even though I use IE7 in both.

 

[ggrothendieck]

On Windows Vista using IE7 if I press ctrl-T for a new tab I get
about:blank rather than
the home page in the new tab even though I set "Open home page for new
tabs
instead of a blank page" under
Tools | General | Internet Options | Tabs

If I click on the Home page icon the home page comes up in a new
window. If
I create a link in the Links Toolbar it does the same thing except it
also gives me
a message that its placing it in a new window since it has a different
security level.

How can I get my home page to appear in a new tab? I was able to do
that under XP
using IE7. I gather it thinks there is a security issue. How do I
circumvent this.

It seems it was a security issue. The home page
was written by me and was a local file on my disk. That put it by
default
into the Computer security zone. Jesper Johansson, in this
post in the vista security group, shows how to change the file to have
it placed
into the Internet security zone which fixes the entire problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.security/msg/c211a3c14f148776

 

[John Barnes]

The internetexplorer.general group is for both IE6 and IE7. There are more
posts now for IE7 as that has been delivered to XP users thru Windows Update
now.