When you open a new tab in Internet Explorer 8 Beta, the New Tab page (about:Tabs) opens by default. If you want to start with a blank page or your home page when opening new tab, you can do so using Internet Options.

1. Open Internet Explorer 8

2. Click Tools, Internet Options

3. Under Tabs section, click Settings

4. In When a new tab is opened, open:, choose an option from the drop down box. The available options are:

  • A blank page
  • The new tab page (default)
  • Your first home page

5. Click OK, and OK.

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3 Comments

  1. Bryann Montoya
    said this on Wednesday, March 17th 2010 2:45 am

    I recently upgraded to windows 7 and had to re instal internet explorer. i used to be able to open a new tab and it would show me a layout of all my most visited sites. I loved this feature and can’t seem to get it back. Not only can i not get it back in internet explorer but in fire fox either. please help me figure out how to change it back.

  2. Sonja Day
    said this on Friday, August 14th 2009 6:42 pm

    Thank you for this really helpful tip.

    I actually wanted to stop IE opening a new page everytime I clicked on a link, but sorted out two problems in one!!!! I especially liked the actually screens, so even I couldn’t go wrong.

    Thank you once again.

    Sonja

  3. said this on Sunday, July 19th 2009 10:48 pm

    Thank you SO much for this simple solution. I didn’t enjoy having that ultra-stupid “You’ve opened a new tab…” page every single time I opened a new tab.

    DUH Microsoft… the little checkbox option to ‘not show this page again’ does not work. Most of us have deliberately opened a new tab, so why on earth would we need to be told the obvious?

    Such a small thing but very annoying, and now it opens to a blank page like it should subsequently do after the first time one uses an IE browser and ‘learns’ whatever one needs to know about tabs.

    Thank you again,

    Donna

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