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On my website there is a button that just used to call a function that calls window.open, however, recently an adjustment was needed to do a server-side check before the popup was opened.
Ever since the code was added that does the AJAX call, browsers blocks the popup, that is opened in the success callback of the AJAX call. I read that browsers might block the popup if it's not called by a user click event, so I tried setting the AJAX request to async: false, which solved the problem in Firefox, but Google Chrome still keeps blocking my popup. Is there any way to get around this?
I could move the server-side check to the page that gets opened in the popup, but I'd like to do it before opening the popup, if possible.
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6 Answers
Yes, popups should be a direct result of a user action. Doing them in ajax callback will not do the trick. Also, using async:false is bad - in FF it is known to block the whole browser. Think of some other way to do the check:
- it could be the first thing you do in the popup
- you can open the popup on click and manipulate it later when the callback fires
- you can require the user to click again some button to trigger the popup (probably the worst solution)
- you can do it on page load
Following up on Emil's excellent answer, 'you can open the popup on click and manipulate it later when the callback fires'. I used this implementation.
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You can open a window that is not blocked just under the onclick event, if you open it on ajax call it is considered popup. However I used this method with success for some time to open a popup and not be blocked.
In my case the window.open was launched inside a promise in angular, which turned the popup blocker on, my solution was:
browserService:
this is how you can open a new tab using the promise response and not invoking the popup blocker.
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