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@deathshadow60 Yes, it was an issue (see background info here: medium.com/sedeo/how-to-fix-target...)
@thehassantahir You might not be aware that this issue has now been fixed in all modern browsers mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ 😃
yeah that makes sense! Thanks for sharing background.
Read it again, In Edge it's a feature request that's not yet been added. Other than that yes, it's been patched in the other browsers.
You can still be 100% safe by doing -- target="_blank" rel="noopener" -- yourself as that hardly takes any effort.
It being fixed in modern browsers is likely why I just tried it here in both Vivaldi and Firefox, and said event did NOT fire.