How to Open Link in a New Tab & Not a New Window With Explorer

A computer desktop can become quite cluttered when multiple windows are open at the same time. Users of Internet Explorer can elect to open multiple tabs instead; a tab is a new Web page that is opened in the same browser window. When more than one tab is open, a user can click from one tab to another -- tabs appear in a horizontal bar at the top of the screen.

Instructions

1. Navigate your mouse on top of the link that you want to open.

2. Right-click on the link.

3. Click "Open Link in New Tab" from the drop-down list; the option is the second from the top, just under "Open Link in New Window."

4. Click on the new tab, the last tab on the right in the list of open tabs, to view the link's contents.

References

• Windows: Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 8, Frequently Asked Questions