Apple safari

[egor110]

Why does it open so many windows ?

So I've opened piston heads and got the forum index page.

Selected the video games thread so that's opened another tab

Commented on a that video games thread so it's opened another tab

Clicked the pie and stuff so it's opened another tab

Clicked computers and stuff that;s another tab

Started this post and that's yet another post!

6 tabs to use the exact same webpage.

Youtube is the same you have 1 tab to search then another one to open a video then when that ends if you click a video that comes up in the side bar , rather than open it on that same page of the video you just watched it opens another tab!

Surely I must be doing something wrong ?

[V8LM]

Is your Cmd key stuck?

[casbar]

I'm using Apple Safari on my MacBook. Mine doesn't open multiple tabs, if I go into Youtube, it's one tab, any videos open in the same tab. Can't help why yours is doing multiple tabs.

[Mr E]

At a guess, because you’ve told it to.

[The Gauge]

Must be something in the settings?

Mine only opens another tab if I click on a link, or hold down Command’ when clicking on something.

[Drogo]

Go to,

Safari settings, General

[pigface1001]

Mine does not do it, so.....

Open Safari
At the top of your Mac screen click Safari → Settings…
Click Tabs
Look for “Open pages in tabs instead of windows”
Set it to Never if you don't want Safari creating extra tabs/windows automatically.

[the-norseman]

Do people still use the built in browsers in Windows and Apple?

[craigjm]

the-norseman said:

Do people still use the built in browsers in Windows and Apple?

Thats a very helpful response. Clearly they do as you see here and clearly you are posting because you think your way is better but not disclosing what it is

[mmm-five]

the-norseman said:

Do people still use the built in browsers in Windows and Apple?

For me, not exclusively!

I find different websites perform 'better' on different browsers - some 'worse' because of built-in security settings which you have to toggle on/off.

So I just end up having a browser specifically for different sets of bookmarked websites.

On MacOS/iOS/iPadOS I'm current using a combination of Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Waterfox, Vivaldi and Tor Browser, and on Windows a combination of Edge, Brave and Tor Browser

Did use Opera for quite a while until it became ensttified.

I refuse to use Google Chrome (Google Earth too), after their forced auto-update shenanigans some years back which resulted in corrupted, supposedly protected, system folders causing reboot loops.

Edited by mmm-five on Tuesday 18th August 15:12

[slievenashaska]

the-norseman said:

Do people still use the built in browsers in Windows and Apple?

As the main browser for Apple - yes (don't use Windows).

Safari works perfectly for me, and I see no benefit at all to using Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave or any of the multiplicity of other browsers out there as they appear to reduce functionality and not improve it.

[Alorotom]

Could also be mouse settings - I have my scroll wheel click set to open the link in a new tab