Maximize Windows in Background

[Ray Woodcock]

When reading a news site, like CNN.com, I often want to open multiple
stories in the background. I right-click on the link to a story and
select Open in New Window. This opens a new window in the foreground.

To keep this new window out of my way as I continue reading the main
news page, I have adjusted an IE window to minimum size, and have then
used Shift-Ctrl-click to close that window. So now the new windows
open at that minimum size. They are no longer very much in my way.
But now I have to manually maximize each of them when I want to read
them.

I would prefer to open these new windows maximized in the background,
so that when I finish with the news site and close its window, I am
all set to read the next story. But I cannot figure out how to make
IE open these new windows maximized in the background.

I have experimented with two freeware downloads, AutoSizer and IE New
Window Maximizer. I have not found that either of these does what I
want.

I am able to program my mouse wheel to serve as a button that will
maximize a window. So when one of these minimized windows is active,
I can just press the mouse wheel to maximize it.

That is not a bad solution, but I would still like to do without that
extra click. Any ideas how?

 

[Courtney]

When reading a news site, like CNN.com, I often want to open multiple
stories in the background. I right-click on the link to a story and
select Open in New Window. This opens a new window in the foreground.

To keep this new window out of my way as I continue reading the main
news page, I have adjusted an IE window to minimum size, and have then
used Shift-Ctrl-click to close that window. So now the new windows
open at that minimum size. They are no longer very much in my way.
But now I have to manually maximize each of them when I want to read
them.

I would prefer to open these new windows maximized in the background,
so that when I finish with the news site and close its window, I am
all set to read the next story. But I cannot figure out how to make
IE open these new windows maximized in the background.

I have experimented with two freeware downloads, AutoSizer and IE New
Window Maximizer. I have not found that either of these does what I
want.

I am able to program my mouse wheel to serve as a button that will
maximize a window. So when one of these minimized windows is active,
I can just press the mouse wheel to maximize it.

That is not a bad solution, but I would still like to do without that
extra click. Any ideas how?

Strangely enough, two browsers, Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox are perfect
for situations like this. They will allow you to do tabbed browsing.

In Mozilla, you right-click on a link and select open in new tab. The
link will open without interfering with your current window. (Firefox
will change to the new tab.)

Click the tab, and you have your link, full screen. I use this on CNN. I
right-click/tab on links I want to read later. When I am ready, I click
the tab and read the next story. When I am done, I close the tab (button
on the right side). The button on the left opens new blank tabs (not
available in Firefox).

Go to http://www.mozilla.org for more info.

courtney sends....

 

[Ray Woodcock]

OK -- thanks!