How do I stop MS Edge from opening a new tab every time I click on a link

Anonymous
2020-10-24T20:05:39+00:00

When I am in a web page and click on a link, I stay on the tab I was originally in, but a separate new tab opens up with the link.

This never used to happen - you used to click on a link and you went straight to that page.  In IE Explorer, it was possible to decide whether links opened in the same or a new page.

I end up with 20-30 tabs all open, and they are so small, I can't tell which is which - it is a real nuisance.  Help please?

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

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Anonymous
2021-02-12T15:55:46+00:00

I have tried all the suggestions listed on this thread, none worked for me.

I have Win10 ver. 20H2, with Microsoft Edge ver. 88.0.705.68
I did however, find a fix for my set up.

The issue was not with the browser but with Bing search as I did not have this problem with Google or Yahoo search engines.

FIX - Once you search something using Microsoft Bing

1. Select the 3 lines on the top right corner of your search page NOT the Edge Browser, then

2. Select 'SafeSearch'

3. Scroll down to 'Results' and uncheck the options as required. I unchecked both for search and results.

Alternatively, you can click on Bing - Settings if this link works for you and proceed with option 3 above unchecking the two boxes.

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Anonymous
2021-01-21T08:29:18+00:00

Hi,

I am a normal user of MS edge. Suddenly, I also faced this issue of new tabs opening on every click. It was not like this earlier.

But now I just discovered a small switch when I typed **'edge opens new tab on every link'**on google. This switch is not available every time!  Maybe I had pressed it by mistake sometime, as I am not sure when this switch appears.

I deselected this option, and my problem is solved. I think this may solve your problem also.

You will find this switch saying Open link in new tab

I hope it will help :)

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-16T16:02:02+00:00

    Hi Greg, I can only speak for myself but I marked your response as unhelpful because you didn't answer the question.  You provided links to long discussions with a lot of unrelated information.

    You'll notice the person that actually provided the solution in a concise response got lots of helpful votes.  Consequently my helpful vote went to DhruvPatel028.

    Regards, John

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-18T14:19:35+00:00

    Just right-click on a link, then select "Open link in new tab" if available. The link will open in a new tab, but this appears to toggle the preference back to links not opening in new tabs unless you specifically specify it, so subsequent clicks will not open in a new tab  unless you again right-click and specify that. Microsoft must have changed something, since I routinely specified opening links in a new tab for years without any problems. MS recently informed users that unused open tabs would be dormant unless reactivated, so I think it may have something to do with that, but, the resulting tiny tabs weren't helpful at all. 

    Thanks to DhruvPatel028 for this solution.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-27T15:47:40+00:00

    Thank you, I've spent hours trying to fix this issue...and all it took was for a user to find this little switch. It worked. Thank you so much

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