Disabling Multiple Windows (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)
1/6/2010
Frequently, a Web site opens one or more additional windows when a user selects a link to a new Web page. This behavior is generally not a problem, but in some cases a user will not want to contend with multiple windows. For example, when a user uses a full-screen browser, the user cannot distinguish whether the current view is a new window or a navigation event within the original window.
You can prevent your browser from opening multiple windows by adding a NoNewWindows subkey to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main registry key, as described in Registry Settings for IESample and IE XAML UI Sample. Setting the value of this subkey to 1 causes a new window.open event to occur instead of a navigation event. A value of 1 also causes a window.close event to execute a back command. However, this registry setting does not affect the IE XAML UI Sample browser, which does not allow new windows to open, regardless of the registry setting.