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New change is terrible!

chapelgrove
Making moves

Apparently Firefox has updated to where now every link I click on opens with a new tab or a new window, depending on what I have set in settings. Why no more opening in the SAME tab? Now I get many many tabs that I have to keep closing. It's frustrating! Give us the option to open in current tab again, please.

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jscher2000
Leader

Links should still open in the same tab unless

(A) They are coded (in the page) to open in a new window/tab. This is sometimes true of search engine results, and you can choose whether to open in the same or a new tab in their preferences. (For example, on https://www.google.com/preferences or https://duckduckgo.com/settings.)

(B) The current tab is pinned and the link is to a different site. Firefox tries to keep pinned tabs within the same site.

There is a (hidden) preference for whether to open bookmarks in a new tab, so if there is a problem with bookmarks, please mention that.