# New Internet Explorer **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010 "2006-12-06T01:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/1 "2006-12-06T01:31:05Z")
I upgraded and now if I have several pages open and I try to close one it asks “close all tabs?” The reponse is either yes, close all tabs, or cancel. There is no “NO, ONLY CLOSE ONE FUCKING TAB.” How can I get this to stop asking if I want all tabs closed??? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/2 "2006-12-06T01:33:29Z")
How are you trying to close the tab? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/3 "2006-12-06T01:48:46Z")
Each individual tab should have its own close box. Don’t try closing the browser, just the individual tab itself. ---
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/4 "2006-12-06T02:20:43Z")
Oh, okay. I was clicking the x up in the right-hand corner. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/5 "2006-12-06T04:32:59Z")
Wow, so rarely do we get GQ’s that can be answered so thoroughly and succintly in such a short time. Usually the answer is “It’s complicated and depends” and/or “check your jursidiction”. Pure simplicity, I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/6 "2006-12-10T21:20:11Z")
That’s exactly the problem I was just having – except that no matter what I did, it would close all the tabs. Hell with it; I just uninstalled IE 7 and went back to the previous version, which works just fine. Cute idea with the tabs, but not really necessary. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/7 "2006-12-10T21:49:55Z")
In my Firefox I move my tabs to the bottom of the browser (this seems to be an uncommon choice) and have a single close button to the right affecting just the focussed tab. I find that to be a good way to not accidentally go to click the wrong ‘close’ at a thoughtless moment. IE7 does not currently give me similar choices. As usual. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/8 "2006-12-10T21:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] In my Firefox I move my tabs to the bottom of the browser (this seems to be an uncommon choice) and have a single close button to the right affecting just the focussed tab. I find that to be a good way to not accidentally go to click the wrong ‘close’ at a thoughtless moment. IE7 does not currently give me similar choices. As usual. [/QUOTE] I don’t use the tab close button at all, I just middle-click the tab itself with my mouse, which in Firefox closes the tab. Does IE7 do anything similarly? ---
**Author:** ![Stout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Stout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stout)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-internet-explorer/383010/9 "2006-12-10T21:55:57Z")
Hey, a computer question even I can answer… Yes middle clicking on a tab closes just that tab. I have noticed that IE7 is a little slower that IE6,and don’t get me started on the new media player, WMP 11.