How to stop IE from automatically switching between windows?

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Due to living in an area where the best available internet connection is 21k
dial-up, I often have multiple IE windows open, allowing some to load in the
background while I work in others. It drives me insane to be typing in one
window, when one of the other windows all of a sudden activates, and makes
itself the active window (Amazon is the worst offender). Is there a way to
force IE to stay on the page I have active, until I choose to switch to one
of the other windows?
 
Oh my, I feel very foolish. It was a classic case of failing to look for the
simple solution first. Thank you so much for your help with this problem that
has been so irksome!
 
medic915 said:
Due to living in an area where the best available internet connection is 21k
dial-up, I often have multiple IE windows open, allowing some to load in the
background while I work in others. It drives me insane to be typing in one
window, when one of the other windows all of a sudden activates, and makes
itself the active window (Amazon is the worst offender). Is there a way to
force IE to stay on the page I have active, until I choose to switch to one
of the other windows?
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It depends on what the implementation the other page is using to do its refresh.
You might have to disable Active Scripting (or set it to Prompt) for some cases.
For others you can try to Disable META REFRESH (in the Security tab,
Miscellaneous section). Note that setting either may cause confusion
or inconvenience in other circumstances.

BTW after some initial redirects I can't detect any refresh whatsoever on
the Amazon homepage. Make sure you aren't seeing some effects of
some spyware.

Hmm... Ok. I suspect it is the initial loading that you are complaining about.
Using Default Security settings I pressed Ctrl-F5 (for full Refresh) and
then immediately clicked on the Minimize button. The window came back
to life showing that it was still in the process of downloading ads. Setting Prompt
would avoid the interruptions but because two occur before anything is rendered
it would mean that not much would be done in the background. Disabling Active Scripting
entirely seems to do what you want but as I mentioned you would probably find that
a nuisance for other sites. As a workaround you might be able to use different
security zones, e.g. one which allows Active Scripting and one which doesn't
and then see what happens if you put Amazon into the zone which disallows it.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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