Opening multiple email clients via mailto?

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Alex Druga

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Oct 26, 2015, 9:36:35 AM10/26/15
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So I've been banging my head trying to figure this out.

I want to trigger the opening of multiple Outlook/whatever mail client from javascript. 

This small snippet works fine in IE and Firefox, but only opens 1 outlook window(the fiest one) in Chrome:

<html>

  <head>

    <script>

      var win = window.open('mailto:any...@example.com?subject=Foo&body=1', 'win');

      var win2 = window.open('mailto:anyb...@example.com?subject=Bar&body=2', 'win2');

    </script>

  </head>

  <body></body>

</html>


I've tried many combinations of timeouts and targets but nothing seems to work.

Is this some security feature of Google Chrome or a bug?

I'm looking for a workaround that doesn't involve showing the user a list of links that he should click manually.


PhistucK

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Oct 26, 2015, 9:42:08 AM10/26/15
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It could be a bug or a feature...
You can search crbug.com for an existing issue and star it. If you cannot find one, file a new issue using the "New issue" link on the same page.
Please, do not add a "+1" or "Me too" or "Confirmed" (or similar) comment. It just wastes the time of Chrome engineers and sends unnecessary e-mails to all of the people who starred the issue.

You can reply with a link to the found or created issue and might get triaged (and fixed) faster.

Thank you.



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Alex Druga

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Oct 26, 2015, 10:30:21 AM10/26/15
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Found an existing issue:

Status Unconfirmed aparently.
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