Comments on: Why Doesn’t the “You’ve Opened a New Tab” Message Go Away

By: OhDear

OhDear — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:41:58 +0000

I can’t believe it. I downloaded IE8 now that it’s officially released and guess what: I can’t get rid of “about:Tabs”. Why is it always like this?

By: OhDear

OhDear — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:04:35 +0000

Thank you. This solved my problem as well. Excellent work on this fine site!

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:43:49 +0000

Thanks so much! That had been getting on my nerves (and affecting my ability to add a new search provider).

By: Slabbs

Slabbs — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:40:42 +0000

You need to make sure that you launch the 64Bit version of IE7, once you’ve made the change in the registry. This will commit the change for both versions of IE.

By: Slabbs

Slabbs — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:07:33 +0000

That was doing my head right in! Thanks for posting this. I’ve just started running XP x64 (don’t know if thats the problem) never seen it before. It needed to be changed to “C:\WINDOWS\SysWow64\ieframe.dll” for me at the same address. Thanks again.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:38:24 +0000

Worked just as explained. Had the occurrence only one more time after I changed the registry entry, then… never again! Thanks!

By: Pete Solano

Pete Solano — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:32:08 +0000

This solution worked perfectly! Be aware that once you do the solution, you will see the “You’ve opened a new tab” message one more time before you notice the problem is solved.