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Don't allow popups during page unload

Category
JavaScript
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 80)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Pages may no longer use the window.open() API to open a new page during its unload. The popup blocker already prohibits this, but now it is prohibited whether or not the popup blocker is enabled. Enterprises used to be able to use the AllowPopupsDuringPageUnload policy flag to allow popups during unload. We removed this flag in Chrome 88.

Standards & signals

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