Defeat Annoying “Open Link in New Window” in Safari

February 26th, 2008 by qiushihe | Posted in Tips |

I am absolutely sick of link that opens in a new window and the new Safari 3 has just the solution — “Merge All Windows” — anytime there are more than one window of Safari open, just select from the menu:

Window -> Merge All Windows

Safari will consolidate all open windows into tabs in just one window. To execute this even faster, create a keyboard shortcut:

  1. 2 Responses to “Defeat Annoying “Open Link in New Window” in Safari”

  2. By Jim Roepcke on Apr 8, 2008

    Hi Billy, do you have the “Open links from applications:” preference (in the General tab) set to “in a new tab in the current window”? That would reduce the number of windows you have drastically.

    Regardless, the Merge command IS pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out, I hadn’t noticed it yet (probably because I still use Firefox).

  3. By qiushihe on Apr 12, 2008

    Hi Jim, I do have that preference turn on, and I did use the single-window trick for Safari 3.1 from here: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/21/terminal-tip-safari-3-1-brings-true-one-window-mode/

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