Voted Best Answer. Adobe selected SDI (SDI: Single Document Interface is when all document windows are separate from each other) as the sole display mechanism with the release of the Acrobat 9 product family. 'Never say never'; but, I'd not expect Acrobat engineering to change away from SDI. So, no 'tabs'. You can completely reset what tabs open with to start fresh. Launch Edge from your Start menu, desktop, or taskbar. Click the New tab button (+) at the top of the window or use the Ctrl + T shortcut on your keyboard. Click the Customize button. Click Reset to default settings.
by Martin Brinkmann on July 03, 2009 in Firefox - Last Update: July 25, 2012 - 42 comments
One of the great annoyances on the Internet are links that are configured to open in new links or tabs. Outbound links, which means links that point to another domain, are usually prime targets for this method of linking but there are also cases that links on the same domain open up in new tabs or windows. The Firefox web browser comes with a set of options to open links in new tabs or windows but no obvious ones to prevent that from happening.
To open a link in a new window or tab one would simply right-click the link and select the appropriate option from the context menu. Users who like keyboard shortcuts can press the Ctrl key for opening links in new tabs or the Shift key to open them in new windows. Alternatively, a middle-click on a link opens it in a new tab as well.
Thankfully though there is a parameter in the Firefox configuration that allows Firefox users to force the web browser to open links in the same tab unless one of the previously mentioned ways of opening links in new tabs or windows is selected.
Users who want to change this behavior need to type in about:config in a tab in the Firefox web browser. This should open the Firefox configuration. First time users need to accept a disclaimer. They then need to filter for the term browser.link.open_newwindow. The default value of that entry is 3 which opens links that would normally open in a new window in a new tab.
To force Firefox to open links (no matter if they have been designed to open in a new tab or window) in the same tab one would need to change the value to [1] which will open all links that would normally open in a new window in the same tab. Changing the value to [2] would open new windows in a new window (duh).
- Value of 1: Opens links that would normally open in a new tab or new window in the current tab or window
- Value of 2: Open links that would normally open in a new window, in a new window
- Value of 3: Open links that would normally open in a new window in a new tab in the current window (default)
Update:
![Open new window not tab Open new window not tab](/uploads/1/2/4/7/124744178/739807568.png)
Just noticed that changing the value to 1 does affect links that are opened in external applications as well. These links will now open in the active tab and not a new tab.
Update 2:
An anonymous commenter just mentioned that there is a new setting available under the preference browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external which defines how and where links from external sources are opened in Firefox. Its default value is set to -1 which makes Firefox use the browser.link.open_newwindow preference when it comes to determining how external links are opened in the browser. The preferences are the same and you can use the values you see above to modify the behavior for external links differently.
AdvertisementTabbed browsing is a form of Internet navigation that allows a user to browse multiple web pages in a single window. These additional pages are denoted by tabs at the top of the browser window. This feature is for users who do want to view multiple sites, but don't want to have multiple browser windows open. In the image to the right, you can see that the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 window has two tabs open, near the top of the browser window.
Helpful tips about tabbed browsing
TipBrowsers that support tabbed browsing, such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer, allow users to open a link in a new tab by clicking it with your middle button (mouse wheel).
TipUse the keyboard shortcut key Ctrl+T to open a new tab. You man open any tab that you had previously closed by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T.
TipTo close a single tab at a time in most Internet browsers, press Ctrl+W on your keyboard or click the X on the right side of the tab.
TipTo move forward between tabs, press Ctrl+T on your keyboard. To move to the previous tabs, press Ctrl+Shift+T.
Another example
Below is another image that shows how Internet tabs may look. In this example, you can see two tabs open in Google Chrome. Clicking either of these two tabs would switch between the open pages.
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