window open url blank not working on iMac Safari

Question

I ve build a web page that let s you select a page name from a drop down list and then transfers the browser to that page   The code that does the transfer is  if  url       window open url    blank         where  url  is the page selected   A console log just before the window open line prints something like       executing  window open http   www mywebsite com 44 threats html    blank     and then the browsers opens the page in a new tab   This works fine on Windows 7 for all the browsers  including Safari     On an iMac it works for Firefox but not for Safari    Does anyone know why iMac Safari won t do  this

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The correct syntax is window open URL WindowTitle   blank   All the arguments in the open must be strings  They are not mandatory  and window can be dropped  So just newWin open   works as well  if you plan to populate newWin document by yourself  BUT you MUST use all the three arguments  and the third one set to   blank  for opening a new true window and not a tab

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There s a setting in Safari under  Tabs  that labeled Open pages in tabs instead of windows  with a drop down with a few options  I m thinking yours may be set to Always  Bottom line is you can t rely on a browser opening a new window

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To use window open   in safari you must put it in an element s onclick event attribute   For example   lt button class  btn  onclick  window open  https   www google com     blank     gt Open Google search lt  button gt

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Taken from the accepted answers comment by Steve on Dec 20  2013      Actually  there s a very easy way to do it  just click off  Block popup windows  in the iMac Safari browser and it does what I want    To clarify  when running Safari on Mac OS X El Capitan    Safari -  Preferences Security -  Uncheck  Block pop-up windows

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You can t rely on window open because browsers may have different policies  I had the same issue and I used the code below instead  let a   document createElement  quot a quot    document body appendChild a   a style    quot display  none quot   a href    lt your url gt   a download    lt your fileName gt   a click    document body removeChild a

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window location assign url  this fixs the window open url  issue in ios devices

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Safari is blocking any call to window open   which is made inside an async call    The solution that I found to this problem is to call window open before making an asnyc call and set the location when the promise resolves   var windowReference   window open     myService getUrl   then function url         windowReference location   url

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