Chrome keeps opening new tabs as new windows

I have an issue of new tabs being opened as new windows.

If I click the new tab button (beside existing tab), or right click and open in new tab, it briefly opens a new tab, but then switches to a new window.

Any idea how to resolve this?

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Make sure you do not have sticky keys on, that may cause a problem. Shift-clicking a link in Chrome opens a new window.

Press shift more than five times rapidly to find out if sticky keys are on. Another clue is if your text is always capitalized and numbers come out as symbols.

There was a chrome extension called ‘New tab, New Window’ that was causing it.

The extension is installed by a malware.

It was sticky keys here. I ran the back of my hand over all the keys on the keyboard and then it stopped doing it.

No malware on my laptop, but all links I clicked were opening in a new window. After clearing the browser cache that behavior stopped.

Click on the Chrome menu > Select Clear browsing data. > Under cached images and files, select All time (next to time-range)> Click the Clear Data button at the bottom.

open your chrome browser and type in url address bar www.google.com and type any randam website that you know like amazon.com and search then click left hand side setting bar and go on search setting then see there . ( Where results open

Open each selected result in a new browser window.) u have to uncheck the box and then click on save and close your chrome ur browser then restart . if it is not working then you have to restore your chrome setting

How to open the Chrome Developer Tools in a new window?

When I try to use the Chrome Developer Tools, it seems I can no longer view it in a new window.

Is this a bug or was that really an intended change in an update?

How can we open the Chrome Developer Tools in a new window?

Here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about.

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As of Chrome 52, the UI has changed. When the Developer Tools dialog is open, you select the vertical ellipsis and can then choose the docking position:

Select the icon on the left to open the Chrome Developer Tools in a new window:

Previously

Click and hold the button next to the close button of the Developer Tool in order to reveal the «Undock into separate window» option.

Note: A «press» is not enough in that state.

1. click on three dots in the top right ->
2. click on «Undock into separate window» icon

You have to click and hold until the other icon shows up, then slide the mouse down to the icon.

Just type ctrl+shift+I in google chrome & you will land in an isolated developer window.

If you need to open the DevTools press ctrl-shift-i.

If the DevTools window is already opened you can use the ctrl-shift-d shortcut; it switches the window into a detached mode.

For example in my case the electron application window (Chrome) is really small.

It’s not possible to use any other suggestions except the ctrl-shift-d shortcut

Automatically open Chrome developer tools when new tab/new window is opened

I have HTML5 application which opens in a new window by clicking a link. I’m a bit tired of pressing Shift + I each time I want to logging network communication to launch Developer tools because I need it always. I was not able to find an option to keep Developer Tools always enabled on startup.

Is there any way to open Developer tools automatically when new window is opened in Chrome?

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UPDATE 2:

You can also now have it auto-open Developer Tools in Pop-ups if they were open where you opened them from. For example, if you do not have Dev Tools open and you get a popup, it won’t open with Dev Tools. But if you Have Dev Tools Open and then you click something, the popup will have Dev-Tools Automatically opened.

UPDATE:

Time has changed, you can now use —auto-open-devtools-for-tabs as in this answer – Wouter Huysentruit May 18 at 11:08

OP:

I played around with the startup string for Chrome on execute, but couldn’t get it to persist to new tabs.
I also thought about a defined PATH method that you could invoke from prompt. This is possible with the SendKeys command, but again, only on a new instance. And DevTools doesn’t persist to new tabs.

Browsing the Google Product Forums, there doesn’t seem to be a built-in way to do this in Chrome. You’ll have to use a keystroke solution or F12 as mentioned above.

I recommended it as a feature. I know I’m not the first either.

Force Chrome to open new pages in new window, not tab? (when opened from a program)

Whenever I click a link from something like outlook or a program opens a web page (not when I click a link from within chrome). It opens up in Chrome since it is my default browser but if I already have a page open it will open in a new tab on that same window. I can’t tell you how many times I forget about this and close the window out, accidentally losing the other tab too. Ofcourse, I can open a new chrome window and find it under recently closed tabs but I would really just prefer if they opened in their own window so I can prevent this.

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Problem

For Linux, if you have multiple VNC servers, this same problem will occur.
That is,

And no google chrome window will appear in the current X VNC session (a new tab will appear in the X session with the first instance of google-chrome).

Solution

A simple workaround is to run

This sets a unique user directory based on the X VNC instance in use. The user directory will be created as needed. The new google-chrome process will display within the current X VNC session.

Tested using Google Chrome version 22 on Ubuntu 12.04.

There doesn’t appear to be a user-friendly option to change this inside Chrome (presumably because most people prefer the new tab).

However, you can change this manually by editing the command specified in your Windows registry used to open an http url.

To do this, open regedit and:

1. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command
2. You should see one key, named (Default) . Double click this to get an editing popup.
3. At the end of the Value data: field you should see the text — «%1» . Change this to —new-window «%1» .

That will instruct Windows to open all http links in a new window of Chrome instead of a new tab.

Presumably, the same general idea is true for Mac and Linux, but I don’t know offhand where they store the command to open urls.

Mike Hardy posted a solution for Mac OS X. I’m using it in 10.7 Lion and it works fine.

The solution involves a small AppleScript application:

Setting this application as your default browser will cause external program links to open in a new window in Chrome.

Updated for Windows 7 pro x64 , following Cerin above —

You should see one key, named (Default). Double click this to get an editing pop-up.

Change the key value from :

In case any Linux users are wondering the same thing, I did this by copying /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop to

/.local/share/applications and then editing it as follows:

If you’re using the Debian chromium package, and you don’t mind setting this as the default for all users on the system, you can instead edit /etc/chromium/default and add —new-window to the CHROMIUM_FLAGS variable.

You can use the «New Tab, New Window» extension for this. They way it works is moving the newly created tab quickly to a new window. So there is a bit of redrawing, but it does work pretty well (for me at least).

Note, as @John mentions below, this extension makes the default behavior for all new tabs (even ones created from inside Chrome).

the answer by Cerin above is the good one but there is an edit needed: the proposed key to change is not specific to Chrome and varies according to the logged-in user. this is the working solution:

1. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command
2. You should see one key, named (Default). Double click this to get an editing popup.
3. Change the key value into «C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe» —new-window «%1» .

This command line option should work for you

/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop , change Exec to below

For the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command method, note that this will NOT work if Chrome is not already running, at least for me, using win 10.0.19042.8404, Chrome 89.0.4389.90 64bit.

If Chrome is already running, the method works. But if Chrome is not yet running, and if you have Chrome set to for example «open where you left off» the new url will still open in a new tab on an existing window.

I verified that the command that Windows used to open Chrome in that situation does indeed contain the —new-window switch. That may be a bug in Chrome, or it might be intentional for god only knows what reason. It’s probably a bug imho related to how Chrome deals with restoring the session.

You can test it by simply running Chrome from a command line with the switch, when Chrome is not currently running.

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How can I make Google Chrome open links in a new maximized window?

How do I get Chrome to open new windows maximized when I do right-click and open link in new window? Note: I’m not talking about when you open the browser itself, so the answer is not to change the properties of a shortcut to Chrome.

Adding the start maximixed startup switch to the end of the target line makes a difference. I also clicked on the Run: dropdown menu and selected maximized.

Now the key to this working is to then place this shortcut on your taskbar (or wherever you usually launch Chrome from) and it will work!

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the extension does not open them maximized.

For those interrested, I found another way to solve the problem (on my system at least, Windows Vista, but probably works for any, as it doesn’t seem related to it), that is have the new chrome window opened maximised, with ctrl+n and even with right-clic «open in a new window» function, without having to code anything in shortcuts or else .

Here’s the trick :

When you close your «last» open chrome window, it remembers the position and the status (maximised or not). So close all windows except one, make sur that one is maximised, then close it too .

Next time you open chrome, the window will be maximised (except if you modified the shortcut to do something else), AND any new window opend even with right-clic on a link and «open in new window» will ALSO be maximised !!

Gee, finally a straightful easy solution . works on my system anyways.

PS : Of course, if one day your new window doesn’t open maximised anymore, you probably inadvertenly closed once the last chrome window in a windowed mode, not maximised . and it remembered it too. Easy to re-fix now.