"Error: Opening a new window is forbidden" when clicking links

[CorruptComputer]

Sometimes when clicking links in emails I get the following error:

Unhandled Error
Error: Opening a new window is forbidden, url: "https://rt.linuxfoundation.org/"
    at notifyLogAndThrow (C:/Program Files/ElectronMail/resources/app.asar/app/electron-main.js:6466:19)
    at WebContents.<anonymous> (C:/Program Files/ElectronMail/resources/app.asar/app/electron-main.js:6479:13)

Clicking it again it usually goes away and works fine, but I'm not sure what the cause is.

[vladimiry]

The error message you see is a result of additional security check took place (preventing opening new app windows). Normally it should not happen but some links are tricky to intercept the clicking of. So the reason for the issue is that the link clicking interception logic implemented in the app has room for improvement.

[vladimiry]

I thing the simple to implement solution for this issue would be in opening an the link as external / in-browser instead of raising the error.

[CorruptComputer]

I just figured out an easy way to cause it on every click. If you middle-click (to open in a new tab) it will cause this.

I have a habit of doing this when on the web, so this may have just been user error sometimes with muscle memory doing middle-click on the links instead of left-click.

[vladimiry]

This is a good finding. I can easily reproduce the error doing middle button click. So adding a middle click handler plus the change from my previous message should resolve the issue.

[vladimiry]

The fix has been implemented and will be included in the next release.

[CorruptComputer]

Amazing, thank you!