How do you stop edge from opening a new tab every time you click a link???

Anonymous
2023-02-04T21:10:53+00:00

Microsoft made disabling this feature such a chore, and navigating settings didn't help one bit. I figured I'd ask on the forums before ditching edge all together.

Microsoft Edge | Tabs, address bar, and search | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-21T01:26:26+00:00

    I GIVE UP!!! I'm going back to Chrome. Because Edge opens window after window all by itself it is dangerous. A couple of days ago I was trying to ask a question on my bank's web page and a dialog box opens up with a chat window that I thought was from my bank. It wasn't, and I got shuttled over to a site called "JustAnswers". I was stupid enough to give them my bank card number... I have gotten back all charges from that site, but felt compelled to replace my bank card. This is all on Microsoft. FU Microsoft Edge. No more.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-26T04:37:13+00:00

    This is happening to me now, and every time I tab over using RB or LB I get an additional pop up.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-19T13:50:50+00:00

    This "Solution" is not helpful for ANY other website than bing,com.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-16T17:26:06+00:00

    Hi Arav V,

    I would like to obtain additional information about this. On which websites are you observing links that open in a new tab when clicked?

    Eric

    Every SINGLE webpage on the entire world wide web or any sort of inter or intra net. It is the most absolutely annoying setup ever. I could lisrt a dozen plus reasons but the tops ones are simply "Surfing the web" as it was called for my generation ends up resulting in having 100+ tabs open in no time at all. Which then of course leads to the next pretty critical issue - computer resources. Before you know it Edge is consuming GIGS AND GIDS of memory and cpu resources. For anyone using a computer even jsut a few years old this can quickly result in crashes of all kinks. Capiche?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-11T15:57:10+00:00

    Went through these steps, but still having the same issue for the past 3 months or so. Probably a bug with the browser. Hopefully Microsoft will work on a resolution soon.

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