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I ran into that annoyance as well. A work around that works for me is to
open some other web site first (I use www.fool.com), then open a new
browser window and open my brokerage's website in that window. Then when I
open a hotlink from email or a web shortcut, it opens the new web page over
my www.fool.com page, leaving the brokerage web page untouched. -uf
At 10:56 AM 6/26/99 -0600, Nicholas Kormanik wrote:
>I like IE 5 quite a bit. The only extremely annoying problem I've
>encountered is:
>
>a) Say you have a web browser window open and set up exactly as you want it
>(for instance, your on-line broker, with all your next-trade info placed
>there), and you then minimize it to get your 'desktop' exposed;
>
>b) You have web shortcuts on your desktop, one of which you want to quickly
>bring up;
>
>c) You double-click on that desktop icon, and it's web page connection comes
>up as you would expect. You visit the site, and close that particular web
>window;
>
>d) You want to place a trade on the security you've been stalking;
>
>e) You suddenly realize that IE 5 did not create a 'new' window for step c),
>but instead used your open web window in step a), and now you are going to
>have to log on to your on-line broker again, and you are so miffed about it
>all that you miss your trade opportunity.
>
>
>This happens to me regularly, and I hate it. Netscape opens up new and
>separate windows when you double-click on any desktop icons (**but**
>Netscape is about three times as long in loading).
>
>I wish IE 5 allowed one to 'lock' particular web windows (like your on-line
>broker, all set up for your coming trade), so that double-clicking on some
>desktop icon would not suddenly take these over.
>
>Nicholas
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