Is there any way to rig Internet Explorer to open multiple pages at once? Like say I wanted to open SDMB, the Onion, BrittneySpears’ButtDotCom, and a few others all at once just by selecting some icons and clicking Open.
A bit of javascript could easily do that …
you can a html file on your desktop with code similar to:
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.open(“your link here”, “page1”)
window.open(“your other link here”, “page2”)
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
This code has not been tested and there are additional parameters in the window.open script that may have to be reconciled.
There are many other ways to do this, but this seems the easiest.
The mozilla browser can open multiple webpages within the same window (on different tabs) or multiple webpages in multiple windows (like internet explorer).
It has the facility to bookmark several pages at once, so that you could later just select the bookmark, and all the different webpages would pop up at once, in different tabs within the same window.
So it looks like you’ve either got to write some javascript as above, or install another browser.
You could make a new desktop folder (Is this a PC?), drag each website you want to that folder. Select all icons in that folder & then ‘open’ & voila! all load at the same time. I suppose you could put the icons on your start menu too, although I haven’t tried that one.
"BrittneySpears’ButtDotCom"
hmmm? 
LOL - The humorous afternoon guys on WLS in Chicago always use this presumably fictitious website as an example of non-productive internet use at work.
You kind of lost me. Anybody got a link to a javascript primer?