How do I open links in same tab instead of new tab

[dbuckley77]

I am running version 6.6.3271.55 and nearly every time I click on some thing on a webpage it opens a new tab. How do I set it so that everything opens in the same tab? It's causing me to have a million tabs in the browser and irritating the everloving bejeebus out of me!

[lfisk]

@dbuckley77 Guessing without an example url... a lot of websites are coded to do this, I find it really annoying too. Some sites I use a lot I can remember this and others I sometimes guess that they will. In those instances I right click on the link and then chose "open link"

[Pesala]

@dbuckley77 The target of a link is hard-coded into the web page.

On this forum, if I click on a username link, it opens in the current tab, but many sites are coded to open the link in a new tab.

Right-click, Open Link is the way to go.

Vote for Option to Always Reuse Active Tab, which is an option in Opera 12.18.

[barbudo2005]

@dbuckley77 @lfisk

Use the extension target="_blank"-toggler:

https://github.com/augnustin/target_blank-toggler

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/targetblank-toggler/emjjmkkcdllendgbldliiphlbpnomnjk

"This is a pain not to being aware whether clicking on a link will open a new tab or not. To avoid this issue, this extension brings a different cursor on new tab link openers.

Besides it is possible to switch between opening new tab or not by pressing the Ctrl/Cmd + Shift keys."

New tab:

Same tab:

[whobop]

@dbuckley77 Only recently noticed that this is a setting on the search engine I was using, not in Vivaldi itself, so check the settings on the profile for Google or whatever you use.