Disable (or Enable) Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

If you think that tabbed browsing feature in Internet Explorer 7 or IE7 sucks, or don’t like to browse the web in tabs and prefer windows instead, or feel that opening too many tabs will drain the system resources, you can actually disable the tabbed browsing support in IE7.

To disable the tabs within IE7 window:

  1. Launch IE7.
  2. Click on Tools, then select Internet Options.
  3. Click on General tab.
  4. Locate the Tabs section and then click on Settings button.
  5. Uncheck “Enable Tabbed Browsing”.
  6. Click OK till exit.

If you want to enable tabbed browsing in IE7 after disable it, simply repeat the above procedures and check the “Enable Tabbed Browsing” to re-enable tabs in IE7.

But mind you, tabbed browsing is one major feature of IE7 other than security, and without it, it may be wiser to uninstall the resource hungry IE7 and use back the faster and speedier IE6 (Internet Explorer 6).

This entry was posted on Friday, December 22nd, 2006 at 5:43 pm and is filed under Web Browsers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Disable (or Enable) Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)”

  1. [How to disable tabs in IE 7]
    November 4th, 2009 03:05
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    [...] Does this help?: disable ie7 tabbed browsing [...]

  2. misandi
    December 12th, 2008 19:54
    6

    i turned off my tab..by clicking the X button when i was using tabbed browsng.. then i clicked the “torn off tabbed browsing” but i can’t turn it back on again..what happened? i search the tab sections fron internet options but it doesn’t exist

  3. Ali
    December 11th, 2008 19:37
    5

    First, make sure you that you are not using Classic display mode in XP. If you are, switch to standard XP display mode. This should make the tabs appear and then you can switch back to normal mode.

  4. Chris
    October 18th, 2008 00:07
    4

    i seem to have the same problem as Monica. if there is a solution to this problem it would be nice to know.
    i can be contacted at

    chrisisz@hotmail.com

    i will keep looking to see if i can figure this out. im sure it’s not that hard, but if i find anything post your email address and i will contact you ^_^

  5. Banditt Raccoon
    September 2nd, 2008 06:28
    3

    thank you, it did NOT help one bit

  6. Monica
    January 25th, 2007 04:03
    2

    I nhave no tab options in my general tan in Internet Explorer 7. I gave the wrong answer and I disable it not using that process. What shall I do?

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    January 15th, 2007 13:07
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