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# Tuesday, January 30, 2007

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IE 7 tabs and Windows Update?

Last night my Vista PC downloaded some updates from Windows Update requiring a reboot. I had IE open with a bunch of tabs I wanted to read.

This morning I logged on to the machine, and when I launched IE it restored all the tabs from last night.

Is this a Vista only feature? I never noticed it before.

Anyway, it's a welcome feature. I was pleasantly surprised.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:45:28 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
It's available in IE7 on all platforms. When you close an IE window with multiple open tabs you get a small dialog where you can check off to save the current session for next time. I use something similar for Firefox which does it automagically every time I close a browser which to me is even more useful.
Søren Spelling Lund
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:22:39 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Although the default in the IE close dialog (when there are multiple tabs) isn't to save the tabs.

Although it may be the case that when IE sees a Windows end session message it decides to default to saving the state of the tabs.

And/or it's making use of the Restart Manager which is new to Vista.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373654.aspx

Cheers
Sean McLeod
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:18:39 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Even better - Outlook 2007 will restore all of its open windows (mail messages etc), as it supports Restart Manager.
Kevin Dente
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:05:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Hi Omar,

This behaviour is consistent with IE7 even on Windows XP SP2. Last year, I was demoing IE7 to some customers in a Microsoft event in Ottawa and one Microsoft employee was shocked to see this cool feature of IE7. He too was not aware of this feature :o).
Anando
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