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Popup Creation Fails

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When opening a new window/tab with JavaScript, unlike all other browsers, SEB returns null in method window.open(...)'. As a result, setting the URL in the second statement does not work.

var targetWindow = window.open("","_blank");
...
targetWindow.location.href = '<the real url>';

_Originally posted by @uhensler in https://github.com/SafeExamBrowser/seb-win-refactoring/discussions/228#discussioncomment-1604061_

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Created 2 years ago
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uhenslercommented, Aug 15, 2022

We have added the mentioned code of the University of Zurich to the public release of OpenOlat. This allows the use of the SEB JavaScript API.

This code does not solve the problem of opening a new window/tab on SEB for macOS. The JavaScript variable window is always null, so there is an exception. This seems to be and bug in the SEB. Can you please look into this?

In the GUI this leads to a popup with the message “Quit Safe Exam Browser: Are you sure you want to quit Safe Exam Browser?”.

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danschletcommented, May 18, 2022

There is no version 3.4 for Mac yet, the latest stable version 3.1 will be released later this week. From the above mentioned page you can get a release candidate version.