Jquery open url in new tab

Question

I'm making a personal script to search google in another language and I've got a url that I've passed from a php script. I want to use jquery to open that url in a new tab (only in google chrome).

I tried:

  window.open("http://localhost/123", '_blank');

It unfortunately Opens in a new window in google chrome, which is unfortunately the only browser that's light enough to use on my computer. I don't seem to have any success googling it so any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks Sam

EDITED: Sorry if your not meant to edit like this but my new question is (I should probably ask it somewhere else):

How to edit google chromes config to open a new tab instead of a window when window.open("href", "_blank") is called?

Answer 1

You can't directly control this, because it can be configured by the user. You might try "_newtab" which might work for Firefox but really you shouldn't rely on a new tab being opened. The user may have their browser settings set to open a new tab when a popup window is opened or it may show up as a popup. It just all depends on the browser settings.

Answer 2

<a href="#" onclick="newTab();">Test</a>

<script>
  function newTab()
   {
     window.open('www.google.com', '_blank', 'toolbar=0,location=0,menubar=0');
   }
</script>

Answer 3

`$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#NewTab').click(function() {
        $(this).target = "_blank";
        window.open($(this).prop('href'));
        return false;
   });
});`

http://franglyaj.blogspot.in/2012/12/jquery-open-url-in-new-tab-using.html