I often open a lot of Web browser windows when using Internet Explorer (like when I’m reading Straight Dope threads). The irritating thing is that each time I open a new one, IE decides to make the new windows smaller — on my PC at work, it’s a standard small size and on my Mac at home it’s progressively smaller, presumably so that a little bit of each window is always visible on the screen.
Frankly, I think IE is treating me like an idiot. I know how to use the cycle command or the menus or the task bar to find the window I want. I would prefer every new window to be opened in full-screen size so that I don’t have to mess with it later. How do I make it do this? If there’s no way to do this, then why not?
Opera can open many windows in one instance of itself so you actually consume fewer system resources than if you opened the equivalent number of IE instances.
This one kinda works for me.
Maximise the window.
When you close the window use FILE | CLOSE or FILE | EXIT rather than the close X or by double clikcing on the icon.
This ‘should’ remember the size of the last window open and from then on, open the up at the same size.
Get’s out of whack every now and then, so just do it all again.
I dunno why this particular fix works, but it does for me:
(and I admit I may be doing a step or two that aren’t necessary, but here goes)
(also, I know only that this fix works on Windows. On Mac, I dunno. Maybe it won’t.)
Open an IE window that isn’t maximum size. It will take up only part of your screen.
INSTEAD of maximizing it, manually drag its borders so that it fills the whole screen.
Find a link to any ol’ website, right-click it and go “open in new window.”
In the new window, repeat step 2.
Now close the first browser window. THEN close the second browser window.
For some reason, the O.S. shall now remember that that size that you created – which happens to take up the whole screen, is now the default non-maximized window size.