Window.open opens a blank empty new tab for no reasons

Question

So I have a very simple link that tries to open 2 new tabs:

function multipleTabs() {
  window.open("http://firstlink/","_blank"); 
  window.open("http://secondlink/","_blank");
  
  return false;
}

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="multipleTabs();">Open 2 tabs</a>

The issue is that when I click the link, the 2 tabs are opened fine but it appears another blank new tab, for a total of 3 new tabs.

How can I prevent the third blank tab to be opened?
Note: you have to allow the pop up in your chrome page to make this working

PS. the solution can be also just chrome specific as I don't use other browser for this page.

could be related to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24364117/open-multiple-links-in-chrome-at-once-as-new-tabs — albert, Dec 28 '19 at 11:26
[I only get one tab](https://jsfiddle.net/tjcrowder/ju875mhp/), not two, not three -- which doesn't surprise me, as opening multiple tabs in response to a single click used to be commonly abused by nefarious websites, so browsers disallow it. Please update your question with a [mcve] demonstrating the problem. — T.J. Crowder, Dec 28 '19 at 11:26
@evolutionxbox - Right. My point above is that I can't replicate that behavior with the code provided. — T.J. Crowder, Dec 28 '19 at 11:47
@T.J.Crowder: you have to allow pop-up in your chrome for the specific page — giò, Dec 28 '19 at 12:33
@giò - When I do that, I only two the two desired tabs, not three. — T.J. Crowder, Dec 28 '19 at 12:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '19 at 15:27

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Try:

<a href="javascript:multipleTabs()">Open 2 tabs</a>

I usually avoid using javascript:void(0) as long as I can for avoiding this type of issues, however for some reason both works-for-me.

answered Dec 28 '19 at 15:27

user1039663

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