Make Safari open new links in existing windows as a tab, rather than a new window

When using NewsFire for checking my feeds and I click the title to read the full article, it opens it in a new window in the background in Safari. How can I make it open the articles in a new tab in the existing Safari window?

I have looked in the settings for both Safari and NewsFire, but I cannot find anything that would help me. I am guessing this is a problem with Safari, not NewsFire.

Josh Hunt

Posted 2009-07-20T00:21:38.017

Reputation: 20 095

Answers

In Safari's preferences under "General" at the bottom is an item that says:

Open links from applications: in a new window or in a new tab in the current window

Make sure the radio button beside new tab in a current window is selected.

Preferences Window

Chealion

Posted 2009-07-20T00:21:38.017

Reputation: 22 932

Duh. I don't know why I didnt see this before! – Josh Hunt – 2009-07-20T13:12:07.390

I've set that option and I still get new instances of Safari opening and not tabs... – Paul Sheldrake – 2009-07-21T22:15:50.417

@Paul Sheldrake: What program are you trying to open new tabs from? – Chealion – 2009-07-21T23:00:45.490

In Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal), type in and run:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Then restart Safari.

ben

Posted 2009-07-20T00:21:38.017

Reputation: 253

This works better than the above accepted solution. – churnd – 2009-08-06T21:21:55.777