Opened 2 years ago
Last modified 3 weeks ago
#53843 new enhancement
Remove adding of rel="noopener" to links with target="_blank"
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| Milestone: | Future Release | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | General | Keywords: | |
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Description
#43187 introduced adding of rel="noopener noreferrer" to links with target="_blank" as a security precaution. Later, in #49558 noreferrer was removed as no longer needed.
Since then most browsers were updated to imply noopener on links with target="_blank" making #43187 and similar changes not relevant any more. See:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#following-hyperlinks (specs),
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#browser_compatibility.
Adding this ticket now as a reminder to remove all noopener when all newer browsers implement the specs.
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In case anyone wonders about the comment author links on the Comments admin screen (r52007), those would keep the
relattribute because they do not open in a new tab automatically.