Windows Internet Explorer - new tab thingie....any idea?

[AhLaVache]

Not sure if I've clicked something but my tabs thing has changed and its annoying me.

So before, I would click on a new tab and it would have thumbnails of the 9 websites I visit most and down the side would be my most recent 'favourites' and recently closed pages.

For some reason thats now not happening, I just get a page saying 'You've opened a new tab'

What have I done...?

As far as I can tell, it was a Google add-on feature for Internet Explorer, which Google have now suddenly withdrawn. You can still get it on Firefox though.

and it is standard in Opera (often called 'Speed Dial')

Sorry, didn't answer before - don't touch MS IE very often, so had not known it was available, but Norbert explains how it may have been added...

Maybe Google have decided to copy Apple and put code in their stuff so they can disable things if they want... Maybe they decided that it was too nice to allow MS users to have this, and wanted to give Chrome a tiny advantage (though not exclusive to Chrome, of course).

Oh I see. Bugger. Was a very handy little gizmo.

Might hve to have a look at a different browser...

Thank you both, at least I know it wasn't me this time.

There are good and bad bits for all of them, and I have to say I use Firefox and Chrome more than Opera at present (though Opera has some nice features too).

Chrome offers more than one way to display your popular sites on a new tab. (grid or list)

Opera can do grids of 2x2 up to 5x5 (your choice, though obviously higher numbers work better with bigger screens and you can have 5 columns and 3 or 4 rows if you have a widescreen display on a laptop for example).

I think Opera was first with it, the others just copied!