Dead windows with tabbed browsing

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hi all

i have tabbed browsing activatedlately i notice that ther is a dead new
window for one of the tabs on the desktop. when i click on the tab for this
in the active IE window it dispappears. however, if you try to clos the
actual dead window, it does nothing. this behavior is entirely new, never
seen it before. i have seen it on my other machines as well.

any one else got it?? anyone got a fix??

thanks

bcy1
 
hey there:

ie ver 6
xp home sp2

all up to date.

BTW i am no novice! experienced all the way back to dos 1.0 (fortran before
that!)

thanks for help, but i think this is a glitch that arrived with an update
after installing onecare.

best

bcy1
 
Well, tabbed browsing's not part of IE6, an MS update or OneCare so YMMV on
that one, BCY1.
 
BCY1 said:
ie ver 6
xp home sp2

all up to date.

BTW i am no novice! experienced all the way back to dos 1.0 (fortran
before
that!)
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Then you should also be educated enough to realize that no version of
Internet Explorer before the beta 7 version ever had tabbed browser
windows. That means you should also be educated in understanding that
it is something YOU installed that added tabbed browsing to IE6, like
you are using the Maxthon browser overlay, MSN toolbar, or some other
software. Well, then you'll need to reinstall whatever software it is
that added tabbed browsing (or uninstall it and reinstall it). Could be
that 3rd party software is not compatible with OneCare so you'll have to
talk to whomever is the author of that 3rd party software that added
tabbed browse windows in IE6.
 
a bit harsh here??

sure ie6 does not have tabbed browsing, but the msn toolbar (A microsoft
product) does. so while it may be a technical faux pas, it was not worth
getting too excited about.

perhaps you need some "support" in calm and kind responses. it was a simple
post and i was just trying to avoid the usual "you forgot to plug in the
machine" answer.

best to all
 
BCY1 said:
a bit harsh here??

sure ie6 does not have tabbed browsing, but the msn toolbar (A
microsoft
product) does. so while it may be a technical faux pas, it was not
worth
getting too excited about.

perhaps you need some "support" in calm and kind responses. it was a
simple
post and i was just trying to avoid the usual "you forgot to plug in
the
machine" answer.
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YOU get on a high horse touting your claimed experience (which had
nothing to do with the browser question) and yet you can't even manage
to explain that it was the MSN Toolbar that was no longer working for
you. You start by claiming IE6 has tabbed windows which you now state
(after being caught on your omission) that you knew it did not. Uh huh.
Rather than the "you forgot to plug in the machine" answer, you got the
"you forgot what software you installed" answer. I wasn't the one that
got "excited". You got excited after reading my reply because it
bruised your ego. Yeah, it must always be someone else's fault when you
screw up, uh huh. Thanks for the giggles.

Hopefully now that you remember what you should've known and said you
knew, you'll be able to correct the problem. If the problem cannot be
corrected, it could very well be a defect in the MSN Toolbar. I had
tried it awhile back but didn't like it. I did not find tabbed windows
in an MDI-like interface particularly useful versus using separate
browsers in an SDI-like interface, and by using grouping for the taskbar
buttons along with virtual desktops to group the windows (something that
came late to Windows from Unix but has been around for awhile) I can
group the buttons and windows how I want them, not as some simple row of
tabbed child windows within a parent window. But that all has to do
with preference. If uninstalling the MSN Toolbar and reinstalling it
doesn't correct the behavior that you don't like and the defect is
something you cannot tolerate, you may have to use an alternate solution
to add tabbed windows to IE, like using Maxthon or AvantBrowser, suffer
the tribulations of volunteering as a beta tester for IE7, or use an
alternate browser that natively supports tabbed windows to provide
MDI-like support.

If you still want to continue using the MSN Toolbar despite its behavior
and want to discuss how to change it, if possible, you may find a
community more focused on that product over at
http://groups.msn.com/MSNToolbar. I don't know how useful is that group
since I stopped using the MSN Toolbar shortly after trialing it as
tabbed windows never did speed up my browsing and I don't have a problem
in organizing my windows.
 
BCY1 said:
a bit harsh here??

sure ie6 does not have tabbed browsing, but the msn toolbar (A microsoft
product) does. so while it may be a technical faux pas, it was not worth
getting too excited about.

perhaps you need some "support" in calm and kind responses. it was a
simple
post and i was just trying to avoid the usual "you forgot to plug in the
machine" answer.

best to all
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And if you uninstall the MSN toolbar?
 
BCY1 said:
a bit harsh here??
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No, not in the least.
sure ie6 does not have tabbed browsing, but the msn toolbar (A microsoft
product) does. so while it may be a technical faux pas, it was not worth
getting too excited about.
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Any reason in particular that you didn't mention MSN Toolbar in your first
post?

Please see this page http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm for the information
we need to be able to assist you properly when you post the the newsgroups.
 
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