I use IE 5.x and often have more than one window open showing different pages. Often (but not always) when I click on a "Favorites link" in window #1, instead of opening the web page in that window, IE jumps to another window to open that page.

As you can see from the subject, it's driving me crazy!! It's a desperate cry for help. Please make the evil program behave.

It's almost like I shift clicked on a link (to open a new window) but I'm jumping to another window rather than opeing a new one. Obviously this doesn't happen when I just have one window with IE running

Can anyone please tell me how to prevent this?

[Edited by Farnsworth & Thomas on 01-16-2001 at 01:21 PM]

Is this happening from links in the Favorites menu itself?

Allow me to clarify. No, it happens from the favorites MENU at the top. I don't have the list of favorites open on the left side of my screen.

I could kick myself for forgetting to mention this.

It may occur if an open window is completing loading and grabs focus; though this coincidence should be infrequent.

It may also occur with pages with framebuster scripting -- but only in some cases, depending upon how it is implemented.

It may also occur if you have IE set to check for a new version of pages every time a page is visited, as there is a minor bug in this (in IE5.0 -- not sure on IE 5.5).

Other than that, I have not seen this on links direct from the pulldown Favorites menu.

I have likewise heard that there is a window focus problem on Mac's with IE that could well invoke this behavior; but have not been able to account it here as yet.

And finally, in 5.0, if you have IE set to run in a separate process, this has been reported.

Beyond that, I am something at a loss. Perhaps others could be more helpful in this?