Adams Web doesn't work when opened with a link

Problem

The browser’s console will show multiple errors similar to:

Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin ““ from accessing a cross-origin frame.

Workaround

Copy and paste the URL into a new tab and Adams Web will load correctly.

Solution

A change in Chome and Edge Chromium introduced new cross-origin policies. When a link (HTML anchor tag) uses a target of _blank the browser blocks the new tab from loading resources because it believes they are cross-origin.

An example link that exhibits this error is:

The fix is that the source of the link must specify that the page being opened isn’t related to the source page. This is done by adding a rel attribute to the anchor tag with noopener and noreferrer values.

The above link then looks like this:

This link will open Adams Web with all resources loaded.

See Also

Link with target=“_blank” and rel=“noopener noreferrer” still vulnerable?

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