window open target self v window location href

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I need to redirect the user using JavaScript  Which is the preferred method   window open  webpage htm     self      or  window location href    webpage htm

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As others have said  the second approach is usually preferred   The two code snippets are not exactly equivalent however  the first one actually sets window opener to the window object itself  whereas the second will leave it as it is  at least under Firefox

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Definitely the second method is preferred because you don t have the overhead of another function invocation   window location href    webpage htm

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You can omit window and just use location href  For example   location href    http   google im

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window location href    webpage htm

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Hopefully someone else is saved by reading this    We encountered an issue with webkit based browsers doing   window open  webpage htm     self      The browser would lockup and die if we had too many DOM nodes   When we switched our code to following the accepted answer of   location href    webpage html     all was good   It took us awhile to figure out what was causing the issue  since it wasn t obvious what made our page periodically fail to load

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Please use this   window open  url    self             The first parameter  url  is full path of which page you want to open    The second parameter   self   It s used for open page in same tab  You want open the page in another tab please use   blank

[javascript] window.open target _self v window.location.href?

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