I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, and IE 8, and have the taskbar in icon view. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I'm amazed at how each tab in IE8 seems to act like a new "thing" in the taskbar (as if each tab was a window).
Each tab acts like a different window in the taskbar although they are actually running in the same window. Now when I use IE 8 it looks (in the taskbar) like there's 15 windows open when in fact the taskbar is simply showing the 15 tabs.
More simply put, it's displaying a "stack" for all of the tabs when I'd rather have the icon act like, for example, Firefox so that a stack is only shown for the multiple windows.
Is there a way to disable this strange "taskbar" effect? I'd rather have the taskbar show the main window and not the tabs individually.
There has to be a simple way to do this.
Best Answer
See "How to Disable IE8/IE9 Tab previews in Windows 7 taskbar"
(The Tabs settings are opened via a button in the General tab of Internet Options)
This solution works for Internet Explorer versions 8 through 11.