IE7 Default Browser (Toolbar) launching "new" instance.

[codebuster]

I have built a toolbar option (based on UE forums) to launch IE7 explorer from a toolbar icon while saving the text on the fly. This works just fine. However, I keeps launching another instance of IE7 when I prefer it would launch another tab or use the existing tab within the EXISTING (active) instance of IE7. I end up with numerous browser instances of the HTML page. I have my settings in IE7 to "reuse" the window. I even edited the registry setting physically "AllowWindowReuse". Not sure that really did anything. So, how does one get this reuse behavior to occur in UE 12 with IE7?

[Mofi]

I have not installed IE7 nor have seen it ever. However, I have found the forum discussion Tabs IE7 which contains following screenshot for the IEC7 tab settings dialog:



And according to this screenshot there should be no problem to configure it like you want.

[codebuster]

Thanks for the response Mofi. Nice to hear from someone accross the world.

I've played with these settings to no avail. It must have something to do with my toolbar comand in UE issuing a command line call to the IE EXE as an instance call. It doesn't just open 1 more browser window with a new tab, but opens them over and over till I have 20 browsers open. Every time I hit the browser button I get another instance.

I even looked for command line setting @ MS to see if there was a way to suppress this behavior, but had no luck there either.

Not sure what to do, as it's very frustrating when testing quick and dirty HTML prototypes outside of MS .NET.

Sure wish UE would detect an existing open instance and launch a tab or have a different command line setting than: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe "%f". I've played with the tool configuration too, and had no success.

CQ from CA, USA

[Mofi]

Ah, now I have understand your problem. You edit your HTML file and run the tool to save it and open it in IE7 although it is already opened. And you expect IE7 would only reload the already opened file instead of opening it in a new instance. Sorry, but this is not possible.

After you opened the HTML file in IE7 with the UE tool first time, you have to do following for further updates:

Press in UE Ctrl+S to save the file.
Press Alt+Tab to switch to IE7.
Press in IE7 the key F5 to reload the modified file.

[codebuster]

Hi Mofi:

Yeah, I get it now too. It's a procedural thing. I just changed my file types in WIN Explorer to associate HTML with the browser (rather than UE directly), and modified my registry to automatically open UE on "View Source". Now, I double-click on the html file and it loads in the browser, then I right-click and view source, which launches UE, I edit the file, click the save button, and then click the refresh button in IE7 and viola! (It helps to have two screens light I do!)

So, I really didn't need the browser button unless I decided to edit the HTML source directly off the disk, launch a new browser window using the toolbar button and then start repeating the edit-save-refresh steps listed above.

Thanks so much for providing me the needed insights to get this solved.

CQ

PS: My contribution in case anyone cares will be the view source IE registry entry (just in case the OS or UE does not pickup on it).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name

Change: (Default) to: C:\Program Files\UltraEdit-32\uedit32.exe

(BE CAREFUL of such antics!)