Go to the Tools menu, select Internet Options, find the Settings button for
Tabs (about 4/5ths of the way down the settings window), check "Always
switch to new tabs when they are created", and click OK twice. HTH.
Mike
"BiggsHomes" <BiggsHomes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5FF19906-C5C1-41A4-B7CE-B1E7FB2E636F@microsoft.com...
> New Tab opening sequences are not user-friendly. When I right-click on a
> link and select Open in New Tab, the new tab is not active. I have to
> click
> on the tab to look at it. This is a useless mouse click. Obviously I
> want
> to look at the new tab immediately, or I wouldn't have clicked on it. The
> same goes with Ctrl-click. Why should I have to hold Shift AND Ctrl to
> open
> a new tab in the foreground?
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general