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.
