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Emil Moe
Senior Data Engineer
Great post, though I don't understand why this is the default behaviour of browsers. Instead noopener should be default and we could add rel="opener".
noopener
rel="opener"
Syed Fazle Rahman
Building Bug0, an AI-native E2E testing platform for modern apps - co-founder & ceo @ Hashnode
noopener ensures every tab runs in a separate process. Your browser would start crashing if you open too many tabs on slower systems. Hence, it's not the default option.
Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu
Full-Stack Developer & Entrepreneur
Hey @emilmoe Thanks 🙏
You can follow the discussion in github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4078 to get more insights.