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by nailer 3702 days ago
Browser vendors do 'phase out' old behavior and phase in new ones. I understand "don't break the web", but as someone else famously replied, "the web is a self healing mechanism". Look at what browsers have done re: forms submitted over HTTP.

A maintained site that relies on window.opener should, after a 24 month period of angry console warnings saying a change needs to be made, actually make that change.