A Chrome extension I built a few months ago has been working fine until today. In the past, a user could click on the extension (or a link within the extension, in some cases) and a new tab would open in the browser. Now the new tabs are not opening. The strange thing is that the windows are opening somewhere. When I look at Manage Extensions, and I expand my extension, I can see the file names in the list of active views.
Here is a sample of the code being used:
window.open('newActivity.html');
and
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Does anyone know why this would have stopped working? I’m using Chrome 18.0.1010.0 dev on Ubuntu 11.10. On this same machine, this whole thing is working with Chromium 15.0.874.106. I have had reports of this not working on Windows XP as well, though I don’t know what version of Chrome.
This appears to be a Chrome bug that affects the beta, dev and canary channels. I’ve reported it as bug 111014.