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Browser: Internet: How to open web page in a new browser window using ShellExecute for any browser?

May 21st, 2006 12:36
Knud van Eeden,

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--- Knud van Eeden --- 21 May 2021 - 07:29 pm ------------------------
Browser: Internet: How to open web page in a new browser window using 
ShellExecute for any browser?
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What you sometimes see happening when you click on a link to open a 
webpage,
and that takes any presently already opened browser window
(which might contain something else running, e.g. your webmail).
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Forcing to open a new window, for any browser,
is not really an option in the Microsoft Windows API ShellExecute
(as by design there are no parameters for it present).
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What you instead can do is to set the option to open a new window in
each browser individually:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.x
-> Start Microsoft Internet Explorer->menu 'Tools'->list 'Internet 
options'->tab 'Advanced'->uncheck 'Reuse windows for launching 
shortcuts'->click button 'OK'
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Microsoft Internet Explorer v7.x beta 2
-> Will start new page in a new tab, so the problem is not really 
occurring here
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Firefox v1.0
-> Start Firefox->menu 'Tools'->list 'Options'->pane left 'Advanced'-
>enable radio button 'A new window' in 'Tabbed browsing (open links 
from other applications)'->click button 'OK'
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Firefox v1.5.0.3
-> Start Firefox->menu 'Tools'->list 'Options'->menu 'Tabs'->enable 
radio button 'A new window' in 'Open links from other applications'-
>click button 'OK'
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Opera v8.54
-> Will start new page in a new tab, so the problem is not really 
occurring here
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Tested successfully on
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (service pack 2),
running
the tested browsers (with default settings to start with).
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Internet: see also:
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