Open new window in Chrome Developer Console automatically

Question

I'm having trouble opening new windows programmatically in Google Chrome (version 62.0.3202.94).

Go give this a try:

function test(){
    console.log("haha");
}
setInterval(test, 1000);

... and you'll see a new line of haha every second.

When you try this:

function test(){
    window.open("https://stackoverflow.com/");
}
setInterval(test, 1000);

... you won't see a new page of Stack Overflow opening every second.

However, typing window.open("https://stackoverflow.com/") into the developer console and hitting enter does open a new page of Stack Overflow.

This is quite annoying because I'm going to automate something. Is there a workaround?

Your browser will most probably block the opening of the window as it is not triggered by direct user action ie. clicking a button. — Turnip, Jan 19 '18 at 16:41
`window.open("https://stackoverflow.com/");` does open a new tab in here. Is there anything blocking popup? — undefined, Jan 19 '18 at 16:41
@iBug the automation worked. However It only opened one tab then then subsequent ones are blocked by chrome. Thats when I saw 'Popup blocked' warning in the address bar. https://imgur.com/tGTZvqD — undefined, Jan 19 '18 at 16:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '18 at 13:36

When you execute javscript in the developer console, chrome consider that the code is executing from the website, and it blocks intrusive popups.

So for example, when i execute following code :

[0, 1, 2, 3].forEach(x => window.open("http://www.google.com", "_blank"))

I get following warning in url bar :

You must explicitly allow chrome to display popups from the page you are executing your code from

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