How can I disable the feature that opens a new tab everytime I enter a search request?

I have Firefox 4.0.1 installed on my laptop, using Windows 7. Whenever I enter in a search query into the search bar and hit enter the search results come up on a different tab. If I then search for something from that new tab another tab opens. As you can plainly see, it doesn't take too long before you have multiple tabs open, thus slowing down the computer. Granted the easy answer is to close the old tabs as I go along, but I swear on older versions of Firefox this "feature" could be turned off; I find it highly annoying to have to constantly click the older tabs from which I searched from.

Use a mozilla.cfg file in the Firefox program folder to lock prefs or specify default values.
Place a file local-settings.js in the defaults\pref folder where you also find the file channel-prefs.js to specify using mozilla.cfg.
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // use this to disable the byte-shift
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
You can use these functions in mozilla.cfg:
defaultPref(); // set new default value
pref(); // set pref, but allow changes in current session
lockPref(); // lock pref, disallow changes
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone

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