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When I open up my hotmail, it opens a new session and not a new tab. Why?

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After I launch your program with MSN as my home page, I then click on hotmail to open up my emails. When I complete the log-in, a new Firefox session opens for my emails and not a new tab like it has done in the past. This has been happening for the past two to three months. What caused this change?

After I launch your program with MSN as my home page, I then click on hotmail to open up my emails. When I complete the log-in, a new Firefox session opens for my emails and not a new tab like it has done in the past. This has been happening for the past two to three months. What caused this change?

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TonyE
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Check the Tab preferences and settings and make sure the setting "Open new windows in a new tab instead" has been selected.

There are also quite a few tabbed browsing add-ons that give you greater control over tabbed browsing, and can force all new windows to open in a tab. Some examples are: