Monday, February 22, 2010

How to Fix ‘Open in New Tab/Window’ problem in IE8 ?

There is a bug detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, which creates problem to open links in a new tab or a new window. This issue occurs when a user right-clicks a web link/address on a web page, and then click [Open in New Window] or [Open in New Tab]. This bug makes the web page cannot be opened in a new window/tab.


This is caused due to some registry problems occurred, when the program doesn’t get installed properly. To resolve this issue, follow the below steps:
1.  Go to Start > Run, type cmd and click ok.
2.  In cmd window, type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll and enter it.

3.  Now you will receive the following message: DllRegisterServer in actxprxy.dll succeeded. Click Ok

4.  Restart your computer.

UPDATE - (New Method)

To resolve this issue, re-register the DLL files that are related to Internet Explorer. To do this, follow these steps:
1.  Click Start, and then click Run
2.  Type regsvr32 urlmon.dll in the Open box, and then click OK.
3.  Click OK when you receive the following message:
  • DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded
4.  Repeat steps 1 through 3 for the rest of the DLL files by replacing the regsvr32 urlmon.dll command in the Open box with the following commands:
  • regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
  • regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
  • regsvr32 mshtml.dll
  • regsvr32 browseui.dll
  • regsvr32 jscript.dll
  • regsvr32 vbscript.dll
  • regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
Now your IE8 Open in New Window/Tab feature, should work simply fine.

2 comments:

Melidesbybike said...

It doesn't work for me.
When I try to register the DLL files a message with this error appears:

"The module "oleaut32.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005.
For more information about this problem, search online using the error code as a search term."

Melidesbybike said...

It seems that the problem is related to many things.
I solve the problem with registry editor by changing a few values on:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.html

Then
Right click the (Default) value for the .html key and select Modify...

And
Change the value from "ChromeHTML" to "htmlfile"

I did this for all files that came with "ChromeHTML"

But if this not working for you try to search the following linkz:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/e312e580-1cbc-496b-8c6b-b69b8535a7bb

http://webtrickz.com/how-to-fix-open-in-new-tabwindow-problem-in-ie8/comment-page-1/

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c894d24ab6fac2d&hl=en

Goog Luck