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window.open() parameters not working in Edge

In Servicenow, I have a requirement to open a new window from a UI action.
1. Open in New window (not tab)
2. Display the navigation toolbar (buttons)
3. Display scrollbars
4. Be resizeable
Using var window = window.open(url, windowName, [windowFeatures]); appears to work fine in Chrome and Firefox, but in IE the window parameters are largely ignored. height and width seem to be the only ones that are adhered to.
I am using Microsoft Edge 41.16299.248.0 and I cannot get a new window opened with the toolbar showing no matter what I try.
https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_win_open5
This is the test code:
myFunction() { window.open("https://www.google.com/search?q=help", "_blank", "toolbar=yes,width=600,height=400,left=600,top=500,status=yes,scrollbars=no,resize=no");
}
When I click the button, a new window opens, no toolbar, not positioned according to left/top, no status bar, I DO see scroll bars, and I CAN resize.
Here is an example from MSDN:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644696%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
According to MS, they've adopted " MDN Web Docs as the definitive place for useful, unbiased, browser-agnostic documentation for current and emerging standards-based web technologies. ", but I do not find any explanation of this issue I am experiencing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/dev-guide
Is this a known issue with IE Edge or is there some sort of workaround available?

ServiceNow has made public that some features will no longer be supported on Microsoft Edge. Why don't you try with another browser like Mozilla or Chrome? It never fails those two to me.
Opera might have some issues too, so I don't advise using that one.
Here's the link about the supported browsers:
https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-release-notes/page/administer/navigation-and-ui/reference/browser-support.html
Hope this information helped :D
Cheers!

Try using Glide Navigation API:
g_navigation.openPopup('incident_list.do?sysparm_query=active=true', 'Active Incidents', 'resizable,scrollbars,status', true);

try this
function win_open1() {
window.open('about:blank','','titlebar=yes,toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=no,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=700,Height=300,left=0,top=0');
}

We encountered the same issues. It turned out that if the "location=" parameter is included, Edge completely ignores all the parameters.
Removing that parameter allowed the others to work.
window.open (url, null,"height=200,width=200,status=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,location=yes,resizable=yes");
Fails - window opens with same size as parent window.
window.open (url, null,"height=200,width=200,status=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,resizable=yes");
Works fine - window opens 200x200 pixels.

Firefox addon: Window.open() vs CTRL-N

I created a simple firefox add on using addon-builder that installs & successfully appears in the add on toolbar at the bottom of the browser.
If I press ctrl-n, open new tab, open new window, or open private browsing window in firefox, then I see and can use my addon. However, if another site programmatically opens a window using window.open(), then my addon doesn't appear.
Is this by design? Or is there a setting that I can include in my addon so that it always appears, even if the window was opened through window.open() instead of ctrl-n?

When sites open with window.open, they specify which parts of the browser UI will show. You may be able to place it somewhere less likely to be removed, like the navigation toolbar. The add-ons toolbar sounds like it's going away soon, anyway.

Javascript to open URL within a new Tab (instead of a window)

Hey guys. There are a few entries here requiring solutions to do the opposite of this, and others vaguely related. In one of them, the poster asked how to do this on Mozilla Firefox. Actually though, firefox will always open the URL in a new tab when window.open() is called, unless you set the window's size within its parameters.
So Mozilla and Chrome do what I want by default. The question is: how do I get Internet Explorer to open the URL I want within a new tab, as opposed to doing it in a new window?
Thanks in advance.

The obvious answer is to open the link with target="_blank". As you said, Firefox and Chrome will open a new tab.
Regarding IE - the behavior is up to browser preferences. By default (in IE7+ obviously) I believe the behavior is defined as open new tab. If the user decided the behavior should be a new window, there's only so much you can do about it.

Open links in new tab in Firefox

I am developing an Firefox extension. How can all the links on a webpage to be opened in a new tab?

That's usually a configurable option in Firefox to handle new links, so they may override your extension with that.
However...
The code
Example Website
will allow you to click the appearing words [Example Website], and the link will open in the current window.
The code
Example Website
Opens the link in a new window/tab.
The only mildly dodgy thing is that target is now apparently deprecated by the W3C, which means that it's generally up to the browser ( and the user's preferences) as to how (or even if) it is handled. But for people who have their preferences set accordingly - in Firefox - that should work.

I found what I was after. I wanted gbrowser.addtab(this.href).

Press Ctrl while clicking on the link on Windows. Use cmd on OSX.

Firefox javascript bookmarklet open tab in background

I've written a bookmarklet to look a word up in a Chinese dictionary:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);})();
This opens a new tab with search results for your selected word or a word you type in at the prompt. Is there a way to load the new tab in the background? I'd like to keep the focus on the page I'm looking at, and look at the search results later.
There is an option "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" in Firefox, this doesn't help.
Edit: Note that this is for my use, so an answer that tells me how to change Firefox (3.0.11) settings to do this would work as well. Also I've tried the following modification, but it's still focusing the new tab.
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('%E8%AF%8D%E8%AF%AD',''))};if(Qr)(function(){var%20oldWin=this;window.open('http://nciku.com/search/all/'+Qr);oldWin.focus()})();
Edit 2:
Looking around to see if I can find an answer I see this guy who's got the opposite problem (new tabs don't get focus, but he wants them to have it), but with no resolution:
Possible to set tab focus in IE7 from JavaScript
There's apparently talk about a _tab target in HTML 5, but that doesn't help me much.
http:/ /forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=185&highlight=tab+focus
(apparently as a new user I can only post one link, so I've mauled it)
This seems pretty broken browser behaviour if this is impossible.

In FireFox type about:config and change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true.
This has worked for me with browser bookmarklets.
source: http://lifehacker.com/263940/force-links-to-open-in-the-background

No, not programmatically through JavaScript. You don't have control over the user's browser preferences, only they have control over that.
Moreover, even if you did have control over that, you shouldn't do it, because it undermines the control that your script is given to you by the browser. If the user wants a page to open in the background, they should be able to control it, not you, as the developer.

Apparently this is only possible with previously opened windows, not the root window.
Calls to window.open with the same
window name as an already existing
window, loads the URL into that window
and gives a reference to the window
back. The window isn't given focus,
its opener property isn't changed, and
a third argument to window.open is
ignored. You can use the focus method
to give the window focus manually.
var oldWin = window.open("url.html","oldName");
oldWin.focus(); // give focus

Facing the same issue, I only noticed that if you alert() something just after opening the window, Firefox would not switch to the newly opening tab.