New tab overrides old

Hi,
I have a two year old MacBook (Mac OS X (10.5.8)) and I use Safari for the internet. It has worked perfectly until a month ago, when all of a sudden the opening of new tabs became a problem. I used to be able to open a new tab and browse freely in this while the old tabs stayed untouched. This way I could have several internet sites open at the same time and change between them. What happens now is that if i try to open a new tab (cmd t) it opens, but the already existing tab changes to "top sites" and quits whatever site it was on. If I then try to open a site in the new tab, nothing happens to it, but instead the required site opens in the old tab, overriding this again and loosing where I was. Can anybody help me?

Hi Robert
that's usually due to a Safari add-on. If disabling extensions via Safari-Preferences-Extensions doesn't help...
then look in the folders mentioned at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3230
perhaps particularly the input managers in both the HD & your account LIbrary.

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