google & open in new window

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"Nic O`Neill" said in news:[email protected]:
ok check... google has a preference setting to open result links in a
new window... but it reuses the first opened window. do you know of
any way to avoid that and have a new window open each time? I tried
the AllowWindowReuse reg tweak without luck.

at the moment I hold in shift and click . im sure there must be a
workaround.

please give me your thoughts, ta!

Nic
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You need to save the cookie that Google created on your drive when you
edited and saved your preferences. Otherwise, how is Google going to
remember your preferences when you next connect to them? It's not like you
actually login and use an account with them that could retain all your
preferences on their end in your account configuration.

Also, it could be that setting the preference to open a link in a new window
won't take effect until you close IE (and that means ALL instances of IE).
Then reload IE and check if your preference gets obeyed.
 
ok check... google has a preference setting to open result links in a new
window... but it reuses the first opened window. do you know of any way to
avoid that and have a new window open each time? I tried the
AllowWindowReuse reg tweak without luck.

at the moment I hold in shift and click . im sure there must be a
workaround.

please give me your thoughts, ta!

Nic
 
You need to save the cookie that Google created on your drive when you
edited and saved your preferences. Otherwise, how is Google going to
remember your preferences when you next connect to them? It's not like you
actually login and use an account with them that could retain all your
preferences on their end in your account configuration.
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The above is completely irrelevant. Cookies aint the issue here
Also, it could be that setting the preference to open a link in a new window
won't take effect until you close IE (and that means ALL instances of IE).
Then reload IE and check if your preference gets obeyed.
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The "Open search results in a new browser window" preference setting takes
effect immediately. Anyone who has used google knows that. No need to
reload IE. There's even a freakin jscript alert that says "Your preference
settings has been saved" and auto refreshes the search page.

The preference setting works! It's just that google REUSES the first opened
window. Meaning, when you click on 5 search result links, instead of opening
5 new windows, it opens them all in the FIRST OPENED WINDOW! ok?

Now, I have found an IE registry setting "AllowWindowReuse" that seemed like
a solution, but it's not :<

The only alternative I'm aware of is holding in "shift" and click each link.
This opens a new window for each result. However there must be a workaround?
Dont yah think?

Any ideas?
Nic?



"Nic O`Neill" said
 
"Nic O`Neill" said in news:[email protected]:
The above is completely irrelevant. Cookies aint the issue here


The "Open search results in a new browser window" preference setting
takes effect immediately. Anyone who has used google knows that. No
need to reload IE. There's even a freakin jscript alert that says
"Your preference settings has been saved" and auto refreshes the
search page.

The preference setting works! It's just that google REUSES the first
opened window. Meaning, when you click on 5 search result links,
instead of opening 5 new windows, it opens them all in the FIRST
OPENED WINDOW! ok?

Now, I have found an IE registry setting "AllowWindowReuse" that
seemed like a solution, but it's not :<

The only alternative I'm aware of is holding in "shift" and click
each link. This opens a new window for each result. However there
must be a workaround? Dont yah think?

Any ideas?
Nic?



"Nic O`Neill" said
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Oooh, you sweet talker you. Thanks for, um, "rigorously" illuminating my
mistake in interpreting what you were trying to accomplish. I just can't
wait until your next post ... NOT!

Have you even bothered to right-click and View Source the page displayed
after Google present a list of matches? Guess not. Otherwise, you would
have noticed the HTML code for all the links look like:

<a href=<url> ... target=nw>

Since the target window name is the same for every anchor tag (for a link),
they will all use the same window. That's how Google coded the HTML in
their results web page. You won't be able to override this behavior via
registry keys or configuration options. That's how HTML works. That's how
Google wrote it.

For some short info on HTML tags, see
http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/tags.html. For the <A> tag in question,
read http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/other.html#Anchor. There are a few
pre-defined target names. "_blank" will open a new window. If multiple <A>
tags use "_blank", each one is opened in a separate new window. However, if
you actually specify a window name then that's the window in which the link
gets opened. Google used the same "nw" (probably short for "new window")
target window name on EVERY link for each result. They ALL will use a
window named "nw" (this is the window's *name* or handle, NOT its title).

You will have to contact Google to ask them to either use "_blank" as the
target window name or generate a random alphanumeric string.
 
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