Forbid links to open new tabs in Google Chrome

Posted by Andrzej on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Andrzej
Published on 2012-06-09T15:39:01Z Indexed on 2012/06/09 16:42 UTC
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I'm looking for a solution to forbid links in Google Chrome to open new tabs (in most cases it is a target="_blank" issue).

So, I want all links to open pages in currently active tab, not in new tab.

I tried a wide range of addons (for ex. "Death to target=_blank") and greasemonkey scripts that are supposed to remove target=_blank attribute but none of them worked.

It is extremally anoying when I want to switch between accounts in GMail or navigate from GMail to GDrive. I always get the new tab opened and I need to close last tab manually.

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