You might try right clicking and choosing New Window. That way you avoid tabs.

Tools button> Internet Options > General tab> Tabs section, click Settings.

Clear the Enable Tabbed Browsing check box. Click OK twice.

Restart IE.

Others probably have similar options.

But it requires messing with the settings. I prefer tabless browsing too. Opera 12 was perfect at it but they stopped developing it.

I hate tabs.

Technically, you can't turn them off, but you can disable all the preferences pertaining to tabs. If you go into the Tools menu in Firefox, select Options, then select Tabs. There's a list of options to either check that you want or uncheck that you don't want. Uncheck everything except the option that says "Don't load tabs until selected". This way you can still use tabs when and if you want to, but if you never want to then you just don't, and everything opens in its own actual window.

I never saw the point to tabs other than to make things more confusing and never knowing what all you have open at a glance. I can't for the life of me understand why people tend to like them better than just separate windows.

By the way, I'm using version 25 or 26 or something like that, but ever since they invented tabs whatever versions from before that I was using you could ax tabs.

I'm using version 30, and turning off tabs is still not an option. I did send feedback saying "I hate tabs" but I think IT types like them so probably nothing will be done.

It does seem to me that creating a new tab in the same window is faster -- sometimes a lot faster -- than creating a new window. And when I was using a public library terminal, I found that the sysadmins had created a buggy "security" script that ran every time a new window was opened. So I adapted to using tabs in that case; it saved a lot of time. But as a general rule it seems to me that the tab menu mostly just eats up screen space -- in Firefox, a LOT of screen space -- and I'd rather have a few more lines of text than a tab menu I don't use.

Thanks for the effort though.

I still use version 25 or 26.

I just HATE tabs.