Google Chrome window open workaround

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I have been working on a web app and for part of it I need to open a new window  I have this working on all browsers  my sticking point is with Google Chrome   Chrome seems to ignore the window features which is causing me issues  the thing I m struggling with is I need the address bar to be editable within the new window  FF  IE  Safari and Opera do this fine  Chrome does not   My Code    function popitup url      newwindow window open url   name    toolbar 1 scrollbars 1 location 1 statusbar 0 menubar 1 resizable 1 width 800 height 600      if  window focus        newwindow focus         return false

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The location 1 part should enable an editable location bar   As a side note  you can drop the language  javascript  attribute from your script as it is now deprecated   update   Setting the statusbar 1 to the correct parameter status 1 works for me

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The other answers are outdated  The behavior of Chrome for window open depends on where it is called from  See also this topic   When window open is called from a handler that was triggered though a user action  e g  onclick event   it will behave similar as  lt a target   blank  gt   which by default opens in a new tab  However if window open is called elsewhere  Chrome ignores other arguments and always opens a new window with a non-editable address bar   This looks like some kind of security measure  although the rationale behind it is not completely clear

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Don t put a name for target window when you use window open     NAME         If you do it you can only open it once  Use  blank  etc instead of

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As far as I can tell  chrome doesn t work properly if you are referencing localhost  say  you re developing a site locally   This works   var windowObjectReference  var strWindowFeatures    menubar yes location yes resizable yes scrollbars yes status yes    function openRequestedPopup       windowObjectReference   window open  http   www cnn com     CNN WindowName   strWindowFeatures       This does not work  var windowObjectReference  var strWindowFeatures    menubar yes location yes resizable yes scrollbars yes status yes    function openRequestedPopup       windowObjectReference   window open  http   localhost webappFolder MapViewer do    CNN WindowName   strWindowFeatures       This also does not work  when loaded from http   localhost webappFolder Landing do  var windowObjectReference  var strWindowFeatures    menubar yes location yes resizable yes scrollbars yes status yes    function openRequestedPopup       windowObjectReference   window open   webappFolder MapViewer do    CNN WindowName   strWindowFeatures

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This worked for me   newwindow   window open url    blank    resizable yes  scrollbars yes  titlebar yes  width 800  height 900  top 10  left 10

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menubar must no  or 0  for Google Chrome to open in new window instead of tab

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Why is this still so complicated in 2021  For me I wanted to open in a new chrome window fullscreen so I used the below  window open  quot http   my url com quot    quot  quot    quot fullscreen yes quot     This worked as exepected opening a new chrome window  Without the options at the end it will only open a new tab

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I have the same problem  Chrome doesn t open a new window from code  not handlers   I found this solution   setTimeout function          window open          url   name    toolbar 1  scrollbars 1  location 1          statusbar 0  menubar 1  resizable 1  width 800  height 600            1

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I believe currently there is no javascript way to force chrome to open as a new window in tab mode  A ticket has been submitted as in here Pop-ups to show as tab by default  But the user can click the chrome icon on the top left corner and select  Show as tab   the address bar then becomes editable   A similar question asked in javascript open in a new window not tab

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