IE7 Bug – Unexpected Effect - Spawn new window in the same process
The following are the steps to force a new window open instead of a tab in your current IE7 process:
- Open IE 7
- Navigate to any webpage
- right click and open properties
- go to an external resource and click a hyper link
- WinKey + R (open run prompt)
- www.myitforum.com
Desired feature would be to open new link as a tab in your current main window. Instead a new window is spawned. IE7 continues as a single process. The same effect can be achieved by the key combination of Ctrl + N in IE7.
Firefox effect: Firefox does not exhibit the same unexpected behavior. If you open a property tab in Firefox and click and external link, a new tab is opened as expected.
Remember bugs are not optional, they are built in.