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