Check my new site – www.ietips.net

I’ve launched a new website on Internet Explorer. You will find lots of articles, tips, tricks, tweaks, easy to use utilities, tutorials, and updates on the latest version of IE. Even though my intention is to provide the latest information on IE8, I will be adding up information related to the previous versions also.

Visit the website, and leave your valuable feedback.

Close a specific tab

A new option…  IE 8 has a new option with closing Tabs. When you click the X button in Internet Explorer, now IE 8 will prompt you with an option to close either “all the tabs” or “Current tab”.

IE8 Close tabs

However, in IE 7 it displays only “Close tabs” option.

IE 7 Close Tabs

InPrivate Browsing Experience with IE8

InPrivate Browsing is a new feature that I find another intresting and good option in Internet Explorer 8. Netizens now need no worry, while using public computers as this option will not store any kind of user data. It prevents Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session, which includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data.

Any toolbars, or extensions that are enabled will be disabled with this option. I wasn’t able to use Shift, Ctrl, P to capture a screen shot using my sniping software, as the extension is disabled quite intresting..

You can either enable, completely disable or choose the sites using the InPrivate Filtering options from the Safety menu button.

Watch out the Viewlet that I’ve created to know how to open a browser in InPrivate mode. [Link]

 To put off this option, simply close the browser.

Unable to change IE8 Homepage

I’ve updated my IE version recently to 8 and find a couple of issues. The first thing, I’ve done is updating the home page. IE 8 has inherited the home page settings from the previous version and haven’t allowed me to change it to any other after the upgade. I was able to change the same by updating the registry keys.

If you also experience the same problem, download the Registry fix that I’ve created. Ensure to take backup of the registry, and disable the AntiVirus software before executing this fix.

Also, close IE8 before you execute this fix.