IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

Gordon wrote:

But it's an *IE* setting.........

The one you mentioned is, but I believe Outlook 2003 does not allow IE to
obey that option; i.e., Outlook 2003 ALWAYS opens a new browser window when
you click on a link.
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Brian Tillman

IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:04:18 -0500, Brian Tillman wrote:

Gordon wrote:

But it's an *IE* setting.........

The one you mentioned is, but I believe Outlook 2003 does not allow IE to
obey that option; i.e., Outlook 2003 ALWAYS opens a new browser window when
you click on a link.

yet MORE "unjoined-up thinking" from MS........

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

Leaving aside that it was apparently at user requests, I agree that having
it as an option might be nice.
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:04:18 -0500, Brian Tillman wrote:

Gordon wrote:

But it's an *IE* setting.........

The one you mentioned is, but I believe Outlook 2003 does not allow IE to
obey that option; i.e., Outlook 2003 ALWAYS opens a new browser window
when
you click on a link.

yet MORE "unjoined-up thinking" from MS........

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:53:05 +0000, Noel All wrote:

Leaving aside that it was apparently at user requests, I agree that having
it as an option might be nice.

My point being, that MS have made things unnecessarily complicated (like
MOST of their Office modules) by this. Yes allow links to be clicked in an
email, but only control the link's behaviour from ONE place - ie the
browser in which it opens!

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

Noel All wrote:

Leaving aside that it was apparently at user requests, I agree that
having it as an option might be nice.

Microsoft seems to have the tendency to, when they change a feature, to make
the change, users be damned. It's either all one or the other. I think
that, when they change a feature, they they should also allow it to be
configured as it once was so that those who liked it the way it was can be
as happy as those who wanted the change. The way it is now, Microsoft tends
to keep some portion of their user population ****ed off.
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Brian Tillman

IE shouldn't open new windows on every link clicked.
 

Actually, my question here IS a suggestion for Microsoft to make a fix to
this problem. It is not resolved by clicking the box "reuse windows". Tech
support at MS told me I should write this problem up as a suggestion so in
future a patch or fix may be offered.


"Gordon" wrote:

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:53:44 +0000, Noel All wrote:

Well without knowing anything about developing, its a piece of code that
launches a new shell of the browser with the URL as command line (or
something similar). Previous versions of Outlook always hijacked an open
browser window but as stated it was a feature request that a link would open
its own browser.

I think you've totally misread the OP! The OP was complaining that every
link clicked in an email opened a NEW IE window. The answer is to change
the settings in IE-Internet Options-Advanced!

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk