# Internet Explorer: multiple opening pages?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 24, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741 "2003-03-24T07:41:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![emolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5fc32e/32.png) [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/1 "2003-03-24T07:41:36Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![polymur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@polymur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polymur)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/2 "2003-03-24T07:53:01Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![mooka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mooka)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/3 "2003-03-24T11:09:42Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/4 "2003-03-24T15:27:20Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/5 "2003-03-24T15:30:13Z")

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**"BrittneySpears’ButtDotCom"**

hmmm? 😉

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**Author:** ![emolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5fc32e/32.png) [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/6 "2003-03-25T00:29:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Optihut \*  
> \*\ ***"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.

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**Author:** ![emolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5fc32e/32.png) [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-multiple-opening-pages/163741/7 "2003-03-25T00:48:02Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by polymur \*  
> \*\*A bit of javascript could easily do that …
> 
> you can a html file on your desktop with code similar to:
> 
> \<html\>
> 
> …
> 
> This code has not been tested and there are additional parameters in the window.open script that may have to be reconciled… \*\*

You kind of lost me. Anybody got a link to a javascript primer?