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

Hi Greg. I'm Jeff, a regular joe, 10 years awarded Microsoft Hero, and volunteer commenter, here to help you.

The reason why your post is marked unhelpful is because you didn't really help much at all - you put two links down and an unwarranted suggestion to contact the devs. I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but the way you've communicated in this thread is somewhat condescending, as-though you have a superiority complex. Listing your "10 years of Windows MVP" as part of your introduction isn't helpful at-all, it's non-information for most people using this forum, and it just seems self-inflatory - few know or care about if the person responding to them is a Windows MVP (whatever one of those is, right? We're just here for software support...).

When the OP reworded their issue, you brushed it off with the StackOverflow classic "this is answered somewhere else" and then said you'd done "everything [you] could". Really? Great, thanks for two links, hope it didn't break your back to find/post them. That's not how all people work, Greg - in your 100,000 helpful forum posts surely you've come across many who don't want to scan links for answers on a forum where people can (and do!) readily just answer the question - several people in this thread have offered far more effective solutions than you. You dropped a few links in, tried made yourself look good by flaunting a few shiny numbers with no meaning, then you got upset when the OP needed more help because what you offered was almost useless. A few links wrapped in a distasteful exhibition of meaningless statistics. 

I'm starting to think that you just throw "helpful comments" at the wall and see what sticks, what gets you that lovely little green "solved" tick. I can see from your post history that you actually only solve about 1 in 5 problems, if I'm being generous. The "100,000 people helped" schtick is much less impressive than the reality of "I successfully help about 1 in 5 people".  Heck even in your most recent attempt at helping somebody you just posted a bunch of installation gobbledegook and ignored the OP's questions, just as with this post where you, the installation specialist, didn't realise that the issue OP was having was with their search engine (Bing) and not with Edge. You've helped on 100,000 posts in 10 years, but what your profile and manner tell me is that you've also been useless 400,000 other times. Yeesh.

While your volunteering is appreciated, the way you portray yourself comes across as though you're only volunteering so that you look good. You appear to give very quick and ill-thought-out responses to people's queries (are you speedrunning a help forum?) so that you can keep your stats updated and keep yourself feeling a sense of pride. You don a crown of purposelessness atop your throne of irrelevance, Greg.

This worked. Thank you!

HI Dragos. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, and Volunteer Moderator, here to help you.

See the discussion here which is the best I can find on that:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsofted...?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsofted...

If you want to suggest this to Edge Developers you can choose the Edge Hub (three dots to right of URL address bar) then Help & Feedback, then Send Feedback for form to fill out.

I hope this helps. Based on the results you report back I may have other suggestions if necessary. If you will wait to choose whether the problem is resolved, then I will continue to help until the problem is fixed.

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