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Instead of tabs appearing, the latest screen completely obscures the previous one

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leos590
leos590

I open firefox. Homepage is there. I open a new page. A new screen appears which completely obliterates the former screen. As if I had just opened the internet. With the next page I go to, it is the same. Previous screens masked. And so on, and so on. Instead of separate tabs appearing at the top of the initial page

I open firefox. Homepage is there. I open a new page. A new screen appears which completely obliterates the former screen. As if I had just opened the internet. With the next page I go to, it is the same. Previous screens masked. And so on, and so on. Instead of separate tabs appearing at the top of the initial page

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jbr
jbr
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Does it sound like some links you follow open whole new windows, whereas you'd expect them to create just tabs inside the same window instead?

That is the default, but you might have changed a preference in the past — see Tab preferences and settings for guidance where to go and what to look for, you want to make sure "Open links in tabs instead of new windows" is enabled for you.

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