Browsers display pages in new tab

My default browser is Chrome but I also use Firefox and Safari on my iMac.  Since installation of Yosemite, I have a sporadic problem when the browser starts opening a link or displaying successive pages in a new tab rather than replacing the on-screen page with a new page within the same tab.  The only way to stop that is to Quit the browser and relaunch.  This occurs from time to time in all 3 of the web browsers I use. 
I have gone into the preferences and, where possible, made sure the " open page in new tab" is not enabled.  As far as I know, I have not made any changes that would have caused this phenomenon since installing OS X 10.10.  Any ideas or thoughts would be welcome. 

Hi Brian,
You're not doing anything wrong - it just doesn't work the way most people would expect.
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