Hello ray611,

I took a look at that extension that is listed in your Options => Add-ons => Extensions :

"Open search results in a new tab 0.3 "

I would advice you to remove it - there is no "About this extension", no support site or email support, plus the extension hasn't been updated since May 2018.

When you want search results to open in a new tab, all you have to do is :

Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and then click on the search result you want to open.

You may have lost the Google settings that are stored in a special PREF cookie.

Google has a checkbox on its settings page to open links in a new window that Firefox can divert to a new tab. See "Where results open":

• https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en

McCoy

Thanks for the suggestion, but removing that extension (which was one of the solutions I found when searching). I can always open a new tab just by right clicking on the link. But I'm spoiled, because I used to be able to just click on the link to have it open in a new tab. The new tab would then be the opened, I didn't have to select the new tab.

cor-el

That did it. I don't know what caused it to change, but this solved it. Thanks ray611

You're welcome.

Google stores its settings in a cookie on your computer, so you need to make sure to keep this cookie and possibly create a cookie allow exception.

@ ray611,

Would you be so kind as to mark cor-el's post as Chosen Solution ? ("Solved the problem" button to the right)

Thank you in advance  !

In case this happens again .....

What will also make sure that search results open in a new tab :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.search.openintab

and make sure its value is set to true

If you had to change the value, then close and restart Firefox.

McCoy

I thought I did mark cor-el's solution as the Chosen Solution.

I think I saw the "preference" suggestion in one of my searched, but I don't believe I was able to get to the place where I could find "browser.search.openintab and make sure its value is set to true"

I'll keep this information in case I need it in the future Thanks ray611

ray611 said

I thought I did mark cor-el's solution as the Chosen Solution.

When I asked you to mark cor-el's post as Chosen Solution, you had marked it as "Helpful" - but you have marked it as Chosen Solution now; thank you  !

The browser.search.openintab pref is used when you use the Firefox search bar to do a search and it won't have effect when you search on the Google website.

cor-el said

The browser.search.openintab pref is used when you use the Firefox search bar to do a search and it won't have effect when you search on the Google website.

Works when I have it set to "true" .....

As we're talking about Google : that's the site I tried it on (numerous times, to make sure).