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I've created a chrome app that opens in kiosk mode, inside my chrome app i have a webview which is similar to an iframe except it works for chrome apps. On the website inside the webview there is a link that tries to open in a new tab, and fails.. At the moment it just does nothing when the button is clicked.
Is there a way to make all links inside the webview not open in new tabs? Or is there any other work around that you can think of?
I firebugged the link and this is what it says (i was expecting _blank but..):
<a class="js-tablink" href="/foh" target="FOH">
//link stuff
</a>

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