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Firefox opens a new tab in google search and i don't want it to?

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Keyringg
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I go into google search and click on a link and a new tab opens, just wondering how i can stop this from happening

Thanks

I go into google search and click on a link and a new tab opens, just wondering how i can stop this from happening Thanks

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philipp
philipp
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hi, how you want to open google's search results is a setting available on their website: https://google.com/preferences

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cor-el
cor-el
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Google settings are stored in a PREF cookie on your computer, so you need to create an allow exception to keep cookies for Google to save the settings, otherwise you have to repeat it.