[Bug]: window.open with windowname does not work correctly

[t57ser]

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Electron Version

23.2.1

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

10.0.19042

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

No response

Expected Behavior

when a page opens a window with a frame name and afterwards a cross-domain navigation happens and a new window with the same frame name is opened then this should result in 2 distinct windows
Each domain should have its own "context" of window names (chrome behavior)
Additionally, window.open with names is not seperated by partition

Actual Behavior

No new window is opened for different domains

• be on youtube.com
• open devtools
• var w = window.open("http://www.microsoft.com", "test")
• navigate to a different domain (in the youtube window)
• open devtools
• var w = window.open("http://www.microsoft.com", "test")

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

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[pushkin-]

weird, that behavior isn't intuitive to me. If you're using the same window name, why doesn't the same window get navigated. I can repro your behavior even when not navigating to a different domain. In my case, I'm seeing the window.name not to get set to the name I passed in: window.open("https://google.com", "a") (in Chrome)

[t57ser]

@pushkin-
Google is not a good use case, it has a COOP header set that does not allow a child window to be used. You will also see that after creation the window has the closed property set to true.

every window should have its own "context" in regards to window names. otherwise it can happen that you have multiple websites using the same window. even in case of same domain, chrome will open new windows, which makes sense otherwise you would get weird behavior if you have the same website open twice.
Regarding cross-domain, that is an obvious security issue

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