Hi Jim, if you don't like tabs, you can mostly avoid them. I say mostly because some built-in Firefox functions like the Options page always use a tab.

To have Firefox open links in a separate new window instead of a new tab, uncheck the "Open new windows in a new tab instead" on the Options page. This article has the steps to get you to that setting:

Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings

If the problem is not so much about tabs vs. windows but is about unwanted pages opening, could you give more information about those pages -- where they are from?

If that's not it either, could you describe the steps leading up to the unwanted behavior?

I wanted to not have a new tab open every time I click on something but I can always just close each tab when I go to log off I guess. The tabs aren't opening by themselves or opening to something I didn't click on but every time I do it opens the page I want plus another new tab :/

What is in the extra tab?

Sorry for the delay but I work out of town, no electricity let alone internet. It's a lot of little pages or icons depicting pages I've been to or a bunch of them are Mozzilla pages. Does that help ?

Hmm, that sounds like the Firefox new tab page which normally appears when you click the "+" button on the right end of the tab bar, or if you press Ctrl+t. It shouldn't just open by itself...

Could you check something, I realize this is a guess... Your home page setting might have multiple addresses. Each address, separated by a vertical bar ("|") launches a separate tab. To review/clean up your home page setting, please see either of these articles:

• Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings
• How to set the home page

THANK YOU ! I went out on a limb and checked to see if my backing up to the msn part of the address would do it, after searching in vain for a save settings button I just closed the page and everything else and voila ! When I opened my home page no new tab :)