NJITGS wrote:
> Could anyone tell me why IE 8 has suddenly decided to stop providing
> me the option to save tabs with exiting? Normally when I Xit out of
> IE with multiple tabs open it pops up a box asking if I wan to open
> these tabs the next time IE starts, however now it only asks me if I
> want to close all tabs or just the current tab.
Nothing sudden about it. This has been the behavior of IE8 even before
it was released 17 MONTHS ago. It is only "sudden" to you because you
just decided to upgrade from IE7 to IE8. So what really happened is
that *you* moved from IE7 to IE8 and now notice a difference in those
versions. Different versions exist because obviously there are
differences between them. "Normal" for you was back when you used to
have IE7.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/readiness/new-features.aspx
Read the "Automatic Crash Recovery" section.
IE7 had the option to prompt (alert) you before closing it if multiple
tabs were open (not if just one tab, the minimum, had a page loaded).
IE8 has graceful recovery in case it fully crashes to let you have the
prompt when you *load* it to ask if you want to reload those tabs again.
It lets you recover from a crash. A history of your tab navigation is
maintained under the following path:
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Recovery
This can also be a security concern because your tab navigation is being
recorded and stored on your hard disk. The contents are NOT encrypted
using the crypto key assigned to your particular Windows account. Many
privacy cleaners don't wipe the files under this path. I don't know if
IE8 is meant to clear this local cache when it exits but obviously it
can't be expected to reliably clean this path if it has crashed. If IE8
crashes, and if you elect at the prompt, this history gets used it to
reload the tabs but that happens when IE8 gets *loaded*.
How do you know at the end of an IE7 that you want to open those same
sites again on your next IE7 session? You might not load IE7 for a
couple weeks while away on a vacation. Would you really want to spend
the time twiddling your thumbs waiting for those 28 tabs to reload again
for sites you don't care about anymore? This "save" was a preliminary
and poorly designed recovery mechanism that required user intervention
and ONLY worked if IE7 was properly unloaded.
If you want to reload the same group of tabs then save all the tabs as a
tab group. You can then CHOOSE to load that tab group when you later
load IE8, sometime while you have already been using IE8 for awhile, or
not at all because you don't want to visit that same exact set of sites.
If you know that you want the same group of tabs reopened later (on load
or during a session with IE
then you should be SAVING that group of
tabs. All the IE7 prompt did on exit is give you an automatic method of
saving the tab group for you. That automatic save is gone but you can
always choose at anytime during your IE8 session to save a group of tabs
and not just when you close IE8.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/09/30/ie8-tab-grouping.aspx
It is also possible to reopen the last opened group of tabs by using the
Tools -> Reopen Last Browsing Session. So at the *start* of IE8 you can
decide whether or not to open your tab group present when you exited IE8
rather than have to guess in IE7 that you might want that same tab group
opened next time but you might not (but making the choice at the exit of
IE7 didn't let you choose at the load of IE7). Personally I find
setting the home page to "about:tabs" a bit easier since I can choose
the ReOpen Last Browsing Session from that web page instead of drilling
through the menus to find it there.
> Btw- For unknown reasons I could not find the newsgroup for IE in
> Outlook Express, could anyone please provide me the address to the
> IE8 newsgroup?
Microsoft is dropping their NNTP server along with their "Communities"
webnews-for-dummies interface that gateways to Usenet. First will by
attrition by gradually removing groups from THEIR server (they can't
remove them from non-Microsoft servers). Then Microsoft will kill off
their NNTP server. Microsoft is not Usenet. To ensure continued access
to the microsoft.public.* newsgroups, you will need to connect a
newsreader to a non-Microsoft NNTP server or suffer with Microsoft's
inane Answers (
http://answers.microsoft.com) and other web-based forums.