How To Open Multiple Internet Explorer Windows In Windows 8

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Internet Explorer

Your copy of Windows 8 actually comes with ii versions of Internet Explorer 11. There'south the TileWorld version, described here, and the desktop version, described in Chapter 15.

By now, you lot're probably familiar with the concept of a Web browser. Information technology's the program you lot employ to visit Spider web sites, of form. The TileWorld version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer (IE for short) has many of the features of a desktop Web browser: bookmarks, autocomplete (for Web addresses), scrolling shortcuts, cookies, a pop-upward advertising blocker, countersign memorization, and then on.

Annotation

Information technology doesn't work with plug-ins or add-on toolbars, however.

The TileWorld IE likes to show y'all pure Spider web, from edge to border of your screen; it wants to dedicate as much screen infinite as possible to the Web's celebrity. The post-obit pages show you how to brand those bells and whistles appear.

Note

You can't designate a Home page (outset page) in TileWorld IE. But if yous ready upwards a Home folio in the desktop version, and then the TileWorld version volition also open up to that page.

The Address Bar

Like whatsoever Web browser, this ane offers several tools for navigating the Web: the accost bar, bookmarks, and good old link tapping.

The address bar is the strip at the bottom of the screen where you enter the URL (Spider web address) for a folio y'all want to visit. ("URL" is brusque for the even-less-self-explanatory compatible resource locator .)

If you accept a keyboard, the almost efficient style to jump to the accost bar is to press Alt+D, just equally in IE versions of old. The address bar appears with the electric current page's address already typed in— and highlighted , significant that y'all don't have to delete it before typing. Only begin typing the new address.

Windows tries to relieve you typing and hunting with several automated suggestion mechanisms:

• Frequent . When the accost bar is highlighted, but before you lot've started to type, a batch of thumbnail icons appears just above information technology. These represent sites you visit often; one tap or click sends y'all on your way—no typing required.

• Search suggestions . As you get-go typing into the address bar, the Frequent/Pinned/Favorites thumbnails get replaced by a batch of even tinier Web-site icons. They represent large-name Web sites that IE thinks you might desire to visit, along with sites yous've visited recently. As you continue to blazon, the suggestions change (Figure iv-11, top).

  

  Figure 4-xi. Top: As you type into the address bar, yous run across a batch of Web sites whose names match what y'all're typing. Lesser: When yous open the App bar, you meet tiles representing either your currently open tabs—or your favorites (bookmarks). Switch between the two using the and buttons (lower right).

  For example, when you type n into the address bar, you meet options like nbcnews.com and Netflix.com. If you continue with a y , the choices at present include nypost.com and nydailynews.com. Add together a t , and you lot see sites like nytimes.com. At any point, of form, you tin can tap or click one to open it.

• Autocomplete . Every bit you type y'all'll see, highlighted in blue, a proposed completion of the Spider web address you're typing, right in that location in the accost bar. This is the closest affair TileWorld offers to a History listing. IE is autocompleting the aforementioned sorts of pages: frequently visited ones, pinned ones, and favorites.

If y'all run across the address you lot're trying to blazon, so by all means hit Enter (or the button) instead of typing out the rest of the URL. The fourth dimension y'all save could be your own.

Searching the Web

The Web is a large place. Heck, there are probably dozens of Web sites by now.

So it should come every bit no surprise that searching the Web is an important function of a Web browser. In TileWorld's IE, the search box is built into the address bar, as it is in many other modern browsers.

That ways yous can just type what you're looking for into the address bar. Every bit you type, enjoy the suggestions IE proposes, just higher up the accost bar, to save y'all typing time. And if you don't see what you're looking for there, so press Enter (or tap ) to begin the search.

The main office of your screen, on the left, fills with Bing search results.

Scrolling

Unless you're reading sites like "A Consummate History of Congress's Brilliance and Efficiency," most Spider web pages are taller than your screen. Yous'll have to scroll downward to read them.

As a result, scrolling is a constant activity.

Fortunately, TileWorld gives y'all virtually 11,339 unlike ways to exercise it.

• Touchscreen : Swipe upward the screen.

• Trackpad : You lot can utilize the regular scroll gesture on your laptop—oftentimes, that's dragging two fingers up or downwardly on the trackpad.

• Mouse : Use the scroll bar that appears as soon as you move the mouse (encounter the box on How Scroll Bars Piece of work). If your mouse has a scroll wheel, information technology works, as well. (Agree Shift while y'all're rolling the cycle to scroll horizontally .)

• Keyboard : You tin press your and keys to scroll i line at a time. Page Upwards and Page Down scroll in full-screen increments, while Home and End whisk you to the top or bottom of the electric current Web folio.

  But maybe the best way of all is to tap the space bar each time you want to meet more than. Press Shift+space to scroll up . (The space bar serves its traditional space-making office only when the insertion point is blinking in a text box or in the address bar.)

Touchscreen Zooming

If you have a touchscreen, yous'll get hours of pleasure from the born techniques for magnifying a page:

• Rotate the gadget . Turn the device 90 degrees in either direction. IE rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.

• Do the two-finger spread . Put two fingers on the glass and elevate them apart. The Web page stretches earlier your very eyes, growing larger. And so you can pinch to compress the page back down once again. Great when the type is a piddling likewise pocket-sized. (Most people exercise several spreads or several pinches in a row to reach the degree of zoom they desire.)

  Tip

  On nearly laptops, you can besides utilize this technique right on the trackpad.

• Magnify with a double-tap . Yous can also double-tap a particular spot on a Web page to magnify it by i level; double-tap again to return to the standard size.

Once yous've zoomed out to the proper degree, you tin then curl around the page by dragging or flicking with a finger. You don't have to worry nigh "clicking a link" by accident; if your finger is in motion, and then IE ignores the tapping action, fifty-fifty if you happen to state on a link.

Tabbed Browsing

Like any other self-respecting browser, TileWorld IE can keep multiple pages open at once, making information technology easy for you to switch among them. In browsers similar the desktop IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, these multiple windows can show up as tabs —similar filing-folder tabs—at the top of the screen. In TileWorld, the same characteristic is at piece of work, merely the tabs are hidden.

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I handy payoff of this arrangement is that y'all can start reading i Web folio while the others load into their own tabs in the background.

The key to revealing them is to open the App bar. Think that?

• Touchscreen : Swipe in from the meridian or lesser border of the screen.

• Mouse : Right-click any blank spot in the window.

• Keyboard : Press +Z.

  As you can meet in Figure four-11 (bottom), in TileWorld, the tabs appear as (what else?) tiles.

  Note

  In Windows 8.1, the tiles higher up the Address bar can reveal either your open up tabs or your favorites (bookmarks), described in a moment. If yous're seeing Favorites instead of tabs, then open the menu and choose Tabs, or tap the button at the lesser of the window.

• To open a new tab , tap the button in the upper right. The screen goes blank. The address bar (accompanied by its row of frequents, favorites, and so on) appears, too, and then that you lot can specify which Web site you want to visit in the new window.

  You tin can open a third window, and a fourth, and so on, and jump among them, using these techniques.

• To close one tab , open the App bar. Tap the in the corner of the tile whose tab yous want to close. Or, if yous have a keyboard, press Ctrl+W.

• To close all tabs , tap the push button; from the shortcut menu, cull "Close tabs."

Tip

Ordinarily, the tabs disappear later you switch to a new one, to maximize screen space. Simply if you'd adopt the tabs bar to stay on the screen for quicker switching, Windows 8.ane can accommodate you lot. Open up the Charms bar→Settings→Options; turn on "Ever show the address bar and tabs."

Synchronized tabbing

Windows 8.1 can synchronize your open tabs across all of your Windows 8.one computers. Got everything set up merely so on the cellular tablet you're using on the train ride dwelling from work? Well, imagine your delight to detect exactly those tabs open up on your PC at home.

This, of class, is however another characteristic brought to you by signing into your PCs with your Microsoft account (Accounts Fundamental).

So: Here you are on your home PC. How practice you come across which tabs you had open up on your tablet? Brand sure yous're viewing the Tabs version of your address bar, as described in a higher place. Then use the button next to the word "Tabs." At the moment, it probably says "This PC," but the popular-up menu lets you choose the names of any other Windows 8 machines you lot use. And voilà: The Tabs bar now shows the tabs you were using on that other auto, even if it's now turned off.

Two Windows at One time

In Windows viii.1'due south TileWorld version of Internet Explorer, you can also open 2 windows side by side, in a split-screen arrangement. That's a showtime—and it's super handy. It means that you can compare the contents of two Web pages or re-create and paste speedily between them.

Suppose y'all have one Web page open up already. At this bespeak, you can open a second window from whatever of three places:

• The Tabs or Favorites bar . (Swipe upwardly from the lesser of the screen, or right-click, or press +Z). Right-click a tile, or hold your finger down on it; from the shortcut bill of fare, choose "Open up in new window." Boom—your screen is split. Drag the divider line right or left as you run across fit.

• A link . When yous find a link on some Web page that might be worth opening into a new one-half-screen window, correct-click it (or agree your finger downwards on it). On the App bar, choose "Open in new tab."

  Tip

  This is a keen way to explore the results of a search. Yous tin can continue the results list in 1 window and open up each link in another.

• The Offset screen (utilise the key or push). Hold your finger down on the Internet Explorer tile (or right-click information technology); on the App bar, cull "Open new window."

  In essence, yous're now running two copies of Internet Explorer—merely the beginning one is at present hidden. To view the 2 windows simultaneously, follow the steps on Side-by-Side Apps.

It's worth noting that if your screen has a high enough resolution, you tin can open three or fifty-fifty 4 windows side by side in this way. Everything works as described on Side-past-Side Apps.

End, Reload

Tap to interrupt the downloading of a Web page you've just requested (if yous've made a mistake, for instance, or if information technology'southward taking too long).

Once a folio has finished loading, the button turns into a (Reload) button. Hitting it if a folio doesn't await or work quite right. IE re-downloads the Web page and reinterprets its text and graphics.

Back, Frontwards

Surfing the Web, of course, is a sequence. Oft, you start on ane page, you lot tap a link to open up a second ane, and y'all tap a link there to move to a 3rd 1.

Fortunately, there are Back and Forward buttons and keystrokes in TileWorld IE. ("Back" means "revisit the folio I was just on," and "Forrard" means "render to the page I was on before I went Back.")

• Touchscreen : Swipe left or right across the screen in toward the center (for Back and Forward).

  Tip

  Brainstorm your swipe within the screen. If your finger starts from off the screen, then, as y'all know from Affiliate i, you'll open up the Charms bar or the app switcher.

• Mouse : Click the or push.

• Keyboard : Press Alt+ or Alt+ .

Flip Ahead

Hither's a smart new IE feature that ought to be everywhere.

Ofttimes, an article you're reading online is continued on another Spider web folio; you're supposed to select a Next Page button at the bottom of the screen. (And why split up a story up into "pages" in a medium that can scroll forever, like a calculator screen? And so that the publisher can sell dissimilar ads on each page.)

In Windows 8, a new feature called Flip Ahead (Figure four-12) saves you from having to hunt around for the Next Page button. You lot just swipe, right to left—or click the button—and, magically, IE brings the side by side folio onto the screen. It uses crowdsourcing to effigy out what link you're probable to want adjacent; that is, it tracks what link was chosen next by the thousands of people who came before you.

Effigy four-12. Flip Ahead means that the Forward push button (and swipe gesture) are bachelor anytime there'due south an obvious adjacent page. You'll know when IE is intelligently guessing what folio you want next, because the "Next page" prototype appears briefly.

Annotation

Flip Ahead comes ready to employ in Windows eight.1. Yous don't fifty-fifty accept to turn it on, every bit you did in Windows eight.

At present, Flip Ahead isn't always bachelor. (You'll know if you tin utilize it, because the push is available even when you haven't backtracked from a page.) Information technology'due south nearly e'er bachelor when you're reading a multipage commodity. You can as well use it when you've performed a search (using Bing or Google, for instance); it takes you to the next folio of search results.

It doesn't work when IE tin't possibly gauge where you lot want to go next—for example, when you pull upwardly the nytimes.com home page, filled with hundreds of article headlines.

Figure 4-thirteen. Wow—a fascinating site! Worth sharing on your Facebook page, isn't it? Top: Open the Charms bar. Tap Share. Middle left: Tap People. Middle correct: Using this popular-up carte du jour, tap Facebook. Bottom: Hit "Add a message" to type your ain remarks. When y'all tap the Send icon ( ), you've but posted your bulletin on your Facebook wall.

Sharing

When you lot're on an particularly useful page, you can laissez passer it along to other interested parties.

The technique begins, of course, with a visit to the Share push. Open up the Charms bar (The Charms Bar); select Share. For your convenience, there's a duplicate share button ( ) on the Favorites console described below.

Now you're offered choices like these:

• Postal service . Windows prepares an outgoing e-mail message containing a link to the page you're sharing, and even a little preview of what's on information technology. Your job is to address the message, add a footling comment ("Hey, Mom—here is written proof that the Great Wall of China is not visible from the moon"), and then hit Send.

• People . This link offers a new panel that lets you broadcast your discovery on your Facebook wall or Twitter feed; see Figure iv-13.

• Reading Listing . New in Windows eight.one: The Reading List is a drove of Web pages and other fabric that y'all've saved to read later, maybe when yous no longer accept an Net connection. See Reading List for details.

Tip

In Windows viii.ane, you can share either the Web address of the article you lot're reading—or a screenshot (picture) of the page itself. Often, a picture is worth a thousand Spider web addresses. Mayhap it's a page whose contents might change past the fourth dimension your recipient gets to information technology. Mayhap you're trying to show somebody how messed upwardly a certain Web site looks on your car. In any case, you access the Screenshot option by borer the button at the top of the Share panel.

You may have other options on the Share panel, too, depending on what apps y'all've installed.

Bookmarks (Favorites)

In TileWorld, there are three means to identify Web sites yous might want to visit once more without having to remember and blazon their URLs. You tin can create traditional bookmarks (what Microsoft calls favorites); yous tin create a tile on the Start screen for a certain site; or y'all can rely on IE'south own memory to autocomplete an accost yous start typing.

Kickoff upwardly: Favorites. They barely existed in Windows 8, merely they're fully fledged in Windows 8.one.

Creating a favorite

When you notice a Web page you might like to visit again, open up the App bar (The App Bar).

Every bit it turns out, the App bar can display either your tabs, as described above, or your favorites. To add a favorite, make sure you're in Favorites mode—make sure it says "Favorites" at the acme left. (If it says "Tabs" instead, so tap the push button at the bottom, or tap the adjacent to the word "Tabs" and choose "Favorites.")

Now tap the Add Favorite push button ( ). You're offered the take a chance to rename this bookmark (usually a shorter proper name is what yous want). Specify a folder for the new favorite, if you like (Figure iv-14, tiptop right). And so striking Add.

Figure iv-14. You can create unlike folders full of favorites: one for your favorite sports sites, one for Windows tips sites, and and then on. To create a new folder, apply the "New folder" push (top left); to put a new favorite into a folder, use the button and choose its name (top correct). Lesser: Whenever yous open the accost bar, this row of tiles appears merely above it, revealing your favorites. (If y'all run into Tabs instead, then tap the .) You tin can apply the push button adjacent to the word "Favorites" to choose a binder and review its contents, as shown here.

And there it is above the address bar: a new tile, at the far-right end, that represents the favorite you just designated (Effigy four-fourteen, bottom). It bears the name of the site—and, frequently, an icon of that site'south logo.

Using favorites

Hither'south how you use favorites:

• Open a favorite page by tapping or clicking its tile.

• Open a favorite into a new tab by choosing "Open in new tab" from its shortcut carte du jour. (To see the shortcut menu, concur your finger down on the tile for a couple of seconds. Or right-click the tile, if y'all take a mouse.)

• Delete a favorite by choosing Remove from its shortcut menu.

Editing favorites

You can't rearrange your favorites. Simply y'all can rename 1 or put information technology into a dissimilar folder. To do that, choose Edit from its shortcut menu, as described in the previous paragraphs.

Note

The TileWorld and desktop versions of IE use the aforementioned favorites. If you lot add together one in TileWorld, information technology volition as well prove upwards in the desktop version, and vice versa.

Simply although you tin rearrange favorites in the desktop version, those changes don't testify up in TileWorld.

Pin to Starting time

If yous begin your solar day with a visit to a few very important sites, then you lot might want to install their tiles on your Start screen. That way you can bound directly to them without having to open IE beginning.

Open the folio y'all want to pin. Open the App bar (The App Bar). On the Favorites bar (Sharing), cull Pin ( ). Rename the tile if you lot like (Figure 4-15), and then select Pin to Start. (You can besides use the and buttons to bike among your favorites, the better to pin one of those to your Start screen.)

Effigy four-xv. When you lot tap Pin to Start, this popular-up console appears. The point here is to requite the tile a unlike, better, shorter proper noun. The Start screen won't have much room for a long title.

Adjacent time yous cheque out your Beginning screen, yous'll see a tile for your newly pinned Spider web site. Like all new tiles, it appears at the far-right end of the screen, ready to open with a single tap or click. (See Chapter 2 for details on renaming, moving, and deleting Start screen tiles.)

The History List

Behind the scenes, all Web browsers keep track of the Web sites you've visited in the by week or so, ordinarily organized into subfolders like Earlier Today and Yesterday. It's a great feature when yous can't recall the address for a Spider web site you lot visited recently—or when you remember that information technology had a long, complicated accost.

In TileWorld, there'southward no History list. At that place is, withal, autocomplete based on your history. When you start typing into the accost bar, the names and icons of recently visited sites announced just above what you're typing, based on what y'all've typed so far. They stand for your history—it's just that you tin't run into when y'all visited those sites, and if yous don't remember the proper name of a site, there'southward no way to view a listing of all your recent travels.

Tip

The desktop version of IE still has the traditional History list—so if you're desperate, you tin e'er return to the desktop, open IE, and open up its History listing. Fortunately, that list keeps track of all sites y'all've visited in either version of IE.

Erasing Your History, Cookies, and Other Tracks

You might have noticed that IE for TileWorld is, ahem, somewhat more stripped down than the "real" IE. Not only is there no existent History list, only at that place'due south as well no style to erase your History if yous've been up to no good. Or is there?

There is. Open the Charms bar. Hit Settings, then Options, then (nether History), Select.

You're shown checkboxes for all kinds of data that Internet Explorer stores as you surf; turn on the ones you'd like to delete. They include "Buried images" (pictures temporarily stored then they'll announced faster the next time you lot visit their pages), Cookies (SmartScreen Web Settings), "Browser history" (that's the traditional History listing), "Download history" (listing of files y'all've downloaded), "Saved form information" and "Saved passwords" (your proper noun, address, passwords, and other data bits IE stores to brand filling in the blanks easier on subsequent visits).

Tip

When you delete your History list, your favorites (bookmarks) are preserved— unless you turn off the "Keep data for favorites" switch.

The last detail is called "Tracking Protection, ActiveX Filtering, and Do Not Rails information." That phrase refers to three advanced and pretty obscure privacy features of the desktop Internet Explorer, whose information you can delete from the TileWorld version.

If you lot really desire to know:

• Tracking Protection limits the ability of Spider web sites to share information almost your Web travels with advertisers. The occasional Spider web sites displays an selection called Tracking Protection List, which, despite the peculiar wording, means "Don't track me." That's the "data" referred to past the checkbox on this Delete History panel.

• ActiveX Filtering . ActiveX controls are plug-ins that help Cyberspace Explorer play certain sound and video files on Web pages. They're besides notorious for making your browser boring and buggy; turning on filtering means y'all can surf with all of these plug-ins turned off. In the desktop version of IE, you tin can turn ActiveX Filtering off on a site-past-site footing; the "information" referred to hither is the list of sites you've OK'd.

• Do Non Track data . Practice Not Runway is a system that lets you opt out of having your cookies, Net address (IP address), and other details captured and shared by the Web sites you visit. (A Web site participates in this program only if its creators want to, meaning that information technology'southward a pretty toothless characteristic.) If you lot've turned on Do Not Rail, then a Web site may occasionally ask to be exempted from this program (so that it can collect your information)—and the listing of exemptions is the "information" referred to here.

When y'all striking Delete, Cyberspace Explorer erases all of the kinds of tracks you've selected.

But that'southward how you get rid of your tracks after you've left them. You can also elect to non leave any tracks to begin with, using inPrivate Browsing (see the box on inPrivate Browsing).

Saving Graphics

If you detect a picture online that y'all wish you could keep forever, you lot have two choices. You could stare at it until you've memorized information technology, or you could save it.

To do that, just touch the image, or concord down the mouse button on it, for about a second. A shortcut menu appears, offering 2 options: Copy and "Save picture."

If you choose Copy, then yous nab that graphic and can at present paste it into another program. If you choose "Salve movie," so your reckoner thoughtfully deposits a copy of the image in your Pictures library (Libraries).

How the Ii IEs Are Connected

As you now know, Windows viii includes two versions of Cyberspace Explorer: the TileWorld version (address bar at the lesser) and the desktop version (address bar at the meridian). The TileWorld version is profoundly simplified, with far fewer features and a blueprint that favors touchscreens.

They're not two completely different Spider web browsers, however. They're connected in some sneaky ways:

• Home page . The starting page you ready in one browser also becomes your start page in the other, even if you specify a set of home-page tabs . (To specify your startup page in TileWorld, open the Charms bar→Settings→Options; under "Home pages," choose Customize, then "Add electric current site." To specify your startup page/pages at the desktop, see Chapter fifteen.)

• Favorites, frequent sites, history, and typed addresses . All of this is shared between the browsers, too. If you designate nytimes.com every bit a favorite in TileWorld, then it shows up in the desktop IE as a favorite, likewise.

  Tip

  In fact, your favorites, frequent sites, history, and typed addresses are synced across all your Windows eight computers—at least all the ones you sign into using your Microsoft account (Local Accounts vs. Microsoft Accounts). That'due south pretty handy; sit downwardly at any Windows 8 reckoner in the world, and boom—your Spider web bookmarks are at that place.

• Option of search folio . Your pick of search site (Bing, Google, or Yahoo) is also shared betwixt the two Cyberspace Explorer faces. You must brand this choice at the desktop, however, as described on Adding Google.

• Linked past a push button . IE on the desktop has many features the TileWorld version lacks; for example, the TileWorld version offers no way to search for text on a Web folio. That'south why, when you open up the App bar and select the icon, you can choose "Open on desktop." It takes you to the exact same page in the other Internet Explorer, the desktop version. A ridiculous hack, but often useful.

The two versions of the browser are also disconnected in some interesting ways:

• History list . The TileWorld version of IE keeps rail of Web sites you lot've visited—for the purpose of autocompleting what yous type, for example, and determining what to put into your Frequent Sites list—but yous can't see a list of them.

• RSS feeds . The desktop version of IE lets you lot subscribe to RSS feeds , which are similar news streams published by Web sites that go updated ofttimes. There'south no way to see them in the TileWorld IE.

• Flash and plug-ins . In TileWorld, you can't install plug-ins into IE (yous nevertheless can in the desktop version).

  Unfortunately, that means that nigh Flash video Spider web sites don't play in TileWorld. Microsoft permits Flash videos and animations to work only on a specified list of Spider web sites—big-proper noun ones, commonly—whose Flash behavior Microsoft has approved in advance. (Flash notwithstanding works fine on all sites in the desktop version of IE, although you have to install information technology yourself at adobe.com.)

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