So the behavior of window.open in Chrome seems to be to open popups in a new tab when used in an onclick event, to open them in new windows when used from the browser console ( as noted by other people), and to open them in new windows when specified with a width and a height.
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However, the same code snippet above will always open a new tab in Internet Explorer 11 if users set tabs as their browser preferences, not even specifying a width and height will force a new window popup for them. In Chrome and Firefox, specifying a width and height will force a popup, even when a user has set Firefox (29) to open new windows in a new tab (as mentioned in the answers to JavaScript open in a new window, not tab): I checked the Chrome documentation for managing pop-ups, but it didn't mention anything about that sort of thing.Īlso, once again, different browsers seem to implement the behavior of window.open differently. 131 m) does not appear to have any settings that the user can use to choose whether or not to open popups in a new window or a new tab (like Firefox and Internet Explorer have). I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like Chrome (version.
What About Chrome? It Implements window.open Differently from Internet Explorer (11) and Firefox (29). You can also test those snippets above in Firefox (29) with its tab preference set to new windows, and see the same results. Observe that the popups are opened in a new window, not a new tab. Internet Explorer (11)Īfter setting up Internet Explorer (11) to open popups in a new window as demonstrated above, use the following test page to test window.open: Go to your browser's settings and configure it to open popups in a new window. You cannot expect the same behavior for window.open to be true across all of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, because of the different ways in which they handle a user's browser preferences.įor example, Internet Explorer (11) users can choose to open popups in a new window or a new tab, you cannot force Internet Explorer 11 users to open popups in a certain way through window.open, as alluded to in Quentin's answer.Īs for Firefox (29) users, using window.open(url, '_blank') depends on their browser's tab preferences, though you can still force them to open popups in a new window by specifying a width and height (see "What About Chrome?" section below).
Window.open Cannot Reliably Open Popups in a New Tab in All Browsersĭifferent browsers implement the behavior of window.open in different ways, especially with regard to a user's browser preferences.
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