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Control over tabs vs new windows and PDF
I'm also coming from Firefox. I've always opened links by right clicking and opening in a new tab, so I was surprised that this existed. What type of links are opening in New windows instead of new tabs?
For the PDFs, when they open, hit save: , and it will download, which you can click to open in your default PDF viewer. Personally, this is why I use the pdf viewer built into the browser, it's convenient, but I'm still waiting for some features to migrate from classic edge to the new one.
cjc2112 Some websites are forcing new windows instead of tabs. My daughter's school website has a link to an page called Skyward. It's where her schedule, grades, test scores, etc are stored. Clicking on the link takes me to a new tab with the login page, but once I log in, it opens a new, smaller window over the main window with the home bar buttons disabled. I can't drag it into the previous window to make it a tab, I'm stuck with it. In Firefox, I can use about:settings to force that new window to open in a new tab and prevent the website from taking away the home bar functionality.
As for the pdfs, I'd like to be able to tell Edge not to download to a location, but rather download into a temp file and open Adobe. I can then save or not, as I need and the only copy will be in that temp file which gets cleaned up every so often. There's a "Save to" option, why not the "Open with" option?Littering my desktop or download folder with every pdf file I need to read so I can then open it with Adobe is crazy!
