Chrome provides many content settings that tend to toggle between "disabled, ask, allow". It should be possible to provide an option for spawning windows even when originating from a user event (although there isn't one currently).

Are you saying to have a permission that would ‘disallow, ask, or allow’ me opening new tabs? Because that’s exactly what it sounds like to me.

The browser could just not make any new window as a result of a click in the content area.

Browsers implement the HTML spec, which allows for this behavior.

Browsers have been known to implement the spec only partially.

They’re not required to.

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