Open IE, click on Help>Select IE Help. Do a search with the keyword "tab" (sans quotes). Numerous informative entries will appear including IE FAQs regarding tab browsing. It's #4 on my Vista system. DA

I am not fully understanding, are you asking for the name of other browsers that you may have had such as firefox or opera? You mentioned it was not chrome or Ie8 is why I ask. are you talking about the drop down menu that shows up under the url address bar that you type your website address into? if so then when you use certain programs which clean out your cache or temp files they also clear your history which would have cleared all those items out. Have you used something recently to clear out temp files or history? I would agree with zep try a system restore it may work and if not it is fully reversible. but if you could give us more info spelling out specifically just what you are talking about it might get us on track with you.

Wow. These are great alternatives. I'm trying them all out. The Bookmark Current Tab Set is very handy - simple - and just what I want to do. I actually downloaded all three bookmark addons that Raven recommended. I'm experimenting with them to see where they place things. I was easily able to bookmark all open tabs from 3 different computers - so I can play around with it this weekend. Jean - I had no idea that there was also a simple drop down option. I just have to see where that puts the bookmarked tabs. Raven - are there any icons that will allow me to place those bookmark add-ons where I can access them with one click. Right now I'm going to the Bookmarks menu - clicking - then clicking the option. I know that's just one more step, but I figured there's likely to be an icon I can just put on my the top (can't believe I'm blanking on the name of that - not the tool bar per se but one of the lines about - like where the file - edit= view - history - bookmarks, tools - help menus are. I have various icons for other addons - like firefox showcase, adblock plus, Wot, Outwit. Is this a matter of whether the add-on develops include an icon to add? Or is there a way I can add one (I didn't see it in options for these addons and don't remember how I got the icons I already have). Thanks. Lynn.

Thanks for your responses. Dan, I will check out the link you listed, haven't had time yet this morning. James, I tried the code you listed, which has the word blank where I normally use _window. I tried your code and it still opened up a full size window. But maybe I did something wrong. I'll try again. This forum has slowed down so much in the past few months. I'm glad that some of you are still around to help people like me! MaryAnn