Stop Sites From Opening New Tabs Chrome
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Is their a way to keep all pages on the internet in a single window through Chromes browser settings? or a addon/plugin that I can do this with?
I don't want web pages to open up in new tabs and/or new windows when I click on some links.
Let me know if anyone has any suggestions!, Thanks!!
1 Answer
Possible approach:
One approach could be building an extension that injects a content script in every page. This content script would parse the DOM and remove all and set all target attributes off the anchor elementstarget attributes of anchor elements to _self.
Caveats:
- There are dynamically inserted elements (including anchor elements) on many pages.
- There are dynamically changing elements (including anchor elements) on some pages.
- Not all pages/tabs are opened through links (e.g. some page could use
window.open()).
Solution:
You could use a MutationObserver that watches for anchor elements being inserted or having their target attribute modified and make the appropriate adjustments.
You still need to take care of tabs opened by other means (e.g. window.open()) if it is extremely important to you (but those cases should be very very few, so it might not be worth the trouble).
How To Stop Websites From Opening New Tabs Firefox
Sample code:
manifest.json:
content.js:
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