Windows 10

[Jamjar74]

How do I keep my browser on when I delete a site I have been viewing and still keep the browser open. At present the browser closes when I do this and I have to reload it. Before the recent Windows update I used to get a message saying something like delete current site and the browser stayed open.

Any info much appreciated. Many thanks.

[Buenchico]

It might help if we knew which browser you're using!

Internet Explorer?
Edge?
Firefox?
Chrome?
Opera?
Safari?
Avant?
Vivaldi?
Something else?

However the obvious answer would seem to be to open a new tab. Then you can close the tab which was displaying the site you no longer need without closing the browser.

[Jamjar74]

I am using Google with Internet Explorer

[Togo]

When you say "delete a site" do you mean close a tab?

[Togo]

I suspect you are closing your home tab, whatever it is, which is of course thinking you have finished browsing. Plus, internet explorer is just about the worst browser there is. If you are running W10 load the Edge Browser. Just remember to import any bookmarked or favourite sites

[Buenchico]

There will be people here (including me) who're falling about laughing at the idea of anyone still using Internet Explorer. It is, and always has been, a totally appalling browser.

The most popular browser in the world (for Windows PCs) is Chrome
https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html
However the most popular browser among AB members (including me) is Firefox:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Either of those is at least a zillion times better than Internet Explorer.

However assuming that you'll continue to use Internet Explorer (WHY? WHY? WHY?), there should be a 'New tab' button or icon near to the top of your page. Depending upon which version of IE you're using, it might look like this
https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/153722d1305005214-internet-explorer-new-tab-change-what-page-opens-new_tab.jpg
or like this
https://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/153720d1305005214-internet-explorer-new-tab-change-what-page-opens-new_tab_button.jpg
Clicking on it will open a new tab, where you can go to a new website. (To close a tab you no longer need, click on the 'X' on the right-hand-side of it).

[Togo]

Haha.

[ivor4781]

i'm on chrome but have tried EDGE and its quite fast and easy to use, its not likethe old internet explorer ..still sticking to chrome though

[davegosling]

What you have here is the modern equivalent of what we used to call a "multi-document interface", or MDI for short. Way back when, you couldn't e.g. open two Word documents without running two instances of Word, which was very costly in terms of processing resources. So the MDI was created which allowed more than one document to be open at the same time within the same instance of its application.

This interface took the view that, since you want to have more than one document open at the same time, once you've closed the last one then you no longer need the application to be open, so it shut itself down again for resource purposes.

There are some applications which allow you to keep the frame (for want of a better term!) open when you close the final document, a sort of "Last Man Standing" option.

To the best of my knowledge, Internet Explorer doesn't have this feature. You can create as many tabs as you like until you run out of memory, but as soon as you close the final remaining open one, IE will close itself along with it.

This doesn't fix your "problem", of course... :-)

[Jamjar74]

Thank you all for the interesting information.

I shall give Google Chrome a try