Has anyone figured out a way to turn off tabs in IE11?

I've Googled 'till my Google is exhausted but can't find any method
that actually works.

No matter what boxes I check or uncheck IE 11 keeps opening tabs, no
matter what registry hacks I add I still get tabs!

So back to IE 10, I'd like to update but not until I can turn off tabs.

 

There is no option to disable tabbing in IE11.

If you disable the following options, the only way to open a tab is if
YOU choose to do so.

Internet Options -> General tab -> Tabs

When a popup is encountered:
Always open popups in a new window.

Open links from other programs in:
A new window

 

I know that, hence my post above. I'm looking for a way to do what IE
11 won't let me do.

I wish that were true, as I mentioned above, I've done all that but
tabs continue to open. If you search the internet there are also
several registry hacks but they also do NOT work, tabs still open.

The only fix I find is going back to IE 10. I'll keep checking Google
to see when someone finally makes IE 11 usable to me.

 

"No matter what boxes I check or uncheck" didn't tell me what you did.
So those options didn't help. Wouldn't using them result in just
showing a single tab? If so, even that's untolerable?

Are you using IE under a 32- or 64-bit version Windows?

If you're adamant on using IE (Trident rendering engine) then maybe one
of the "wrapper" web browsers might give you the behavior you want.
These provide a different fronted (the UI) while still using the IE libs
in the background to connect and render. The only one that I remember
trialing a long time back was Maxthon. Apparently the latest version
combines both the Trident (IE) and Webkit (Chrome, Safari, Opera)
rendering engines. I haven't bothered keeping up with the IE frontend
substitutes.

Otherwise, you'll have to stay back on an older version of IE that still
has the features or behavior that you want.

 

It should have since those same suggestions are all over the internet
along with multiple comments from many users saying they don't work but
you're right in that I could have been clearer..

Nope, that allows IE to open dozens of tabs, it makes absolutely NO
difference in tab behavior, no idea why?

Absolutely. The most tabs I'll tolerate is zero!

Im running Win7 64 bit.

I've had few complaints with IE 10 or earlier versions, I'd like to
upgrade to IE 11 just to keep up but since I've already determined that
Win7 will be my last version of Windows I suppose IE 10 will have to do
as well.

 

With those options set as mentioned, popups open in a new window and
links in other programs open a new window. So the rest of the tabs are
how you chose to load a page. How are you getting the tabs to show up?
If you click on a hyperlink, the page shows up in the current tab, not
in a new tab. If you right-click on a hyperlink, it's up to you whether
the page loads in a new tab or new window. If you middle-click (or
Ctrl+leftclick) the mouse on a hyperlink in IE (or Firefox or Chrome),
that's a shortcut to "open in new tab". What are you doing to open all
those other tabs?

I asked because editing the registry for 64-bit Windows means there are
entries for 32- and 64-bit. The hacks might have you editing in the
wrong place. I don't know what hacks to which you refer because you
didn't mention any (by procedure or the web page) and I don't know what
search strings you used in which search engine.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305097

Since IE10, and for Windows 64, IE is a frakenjob app. The chrome is
64-bit while the tabs are 32-bit. This was to make add-ons more
compatible with a 64-bit version of the web browser rather than wait
until all those slow authors decided to get around to making 64-bit
versions of their add-ons. For IE9, and earlier, you saw a 32- and
64-bit shortcut to IE. For IE10 and later, there's just one shortcut.
Even the one that points to the 32-bit path is just a loader for the
64-bit version of IE.

The major web browsers have all embraced tabbing. Other than the
options already mentioned, and depending on how you are opening those
tabs, you might have to change your behavior, like right-clicking a
hyperlink and using the "Open in new window" context menu.

I suspect you won't be able to completely get rid of tabbing in IE. I
haven't used Google Chrome for awhile. Firefox is very modifiable
through extensions, like:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/inte...y-want-to-completely-disable-tabs-in-firefox/

By the way, if you happen to open a web page in a new tab in IE (or
Firefox or Chrome) but really want it as a separate window, all you have
to do is drag the tab out of the chrome; i.e., drag a tab outside the
window and a new window is opened containing the dragged tab.

 

Just left clicking on any link, a new tab opens.

Seems IE 10 is going to be the fix, I have run into some major
problems that mean I have no time and less interest in getting the
PC to behave.

Thanks for the help, BTW, much appreciated!

There are several I've found, I tried this:

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1224051
(scroll to the bottom for the reg.a entries)

This seems to be for 32 bits only but it's easy to mod so it should
work with 64 bit (I think.)

I found others but they were all reported to not work.

 

That's strange. When I (and everyone else I've seen using any web
browser) left-clicks on a hyperlink the destination page loads in the
existing window UNLESS the hyperlink itself specified the target=_blank
attribute. With that attribute, the hyperlink is requesting the client
to open the destination as a new document rather than replacing the
current document.

I've used the target=_blank attribute in the <A> tag, for example, in
the HTML for my eBay auctions when I want to show users more
information, like technical details from the manufacturer. This lets
them choose see the info in another window or tab without taking them
away from my eBay auction page. It looks something like:

<A href=[destinationURL] ... target=_blank>See here for tech specs</A>

There may be other ways a hyperlink or a scripted event on a web page
makes you open a new document that requires its own window or tab but
this one I know as it's pretty simple. So look at the hyperlinks you
are clicking on. Look at their properties and may find it is either an
<A> tag using the target attribute to open a new document or an on-click
event handler (javascript) that handles opening a new window (which
could be a new window or new tab). That's the web site wanting to
exhibit behavior you do not prefer. If you use a non-tabbing web
browser then it would be forced to open a whole new window to show the
new document. A tabbing web browser would open the new document in a
new tab. So the hyperlink is the one forcing the display of a page as a
new document (in a window or tab) and not the web browser. With these
tricks, clicking on a hyperlink *replaces* the current page with the one
specified as the destination for the hyperlink.