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Originally Posted by BetterRed
...IE would be the same, I'd have an icon stack. Some people hate ribbons, I hate stacked icons in taskbars, especially task bars that emulate a Folies Bergère chorus line  ... |
Perhaps I should have been more expansive regarding the Windows taskbar properties as to what I was getting at.
Which was that Windows 8.x (at least, I cannot recall for older versions but I thought 7 was the same) allows one to chose between stacking (combine) the taskbar icons or not, or only stack if the taskbar is full; the choice is in Taskbar properties.
Which results in if one configures IE as I described and chose in Windows task bar properties not to stack (never combine in Windows parlance) task bar icons then when one opens a link in another application and IE is already open, the page linked to from the other application will appear as another icon on the taskbar. Each icon will be labelled (to the extend room on the taskbar allows) with the web page for identification.
The property for the Taskbar will be global though i.e. taskbar icons will never combine for all applications, and as I said the IE property will also be global, acting as described for links from all other applications. That behavior may or may not be sufficient. For myself I am indifferent as to whether a web viewer is incorporated or not.
Apologies if I have missed some important requirement mentioned but I am in the middle of a month long cruise in unpopulated areas with only occasional and poor cellular coverage, hence I rarely read everything in a thread and thump all our internet comm's out in a hurry when I get the chance
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