Version: 53.0.2785.97
OS: Android N
What steps will reproduce the problem?
Make a set of links to YouTube Video
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blank, noopener</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4">nothing</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4" target="_blank">just blank</a>
Click the links on an android phone with YouTube installed.
What is the expected output?
Given that the user has not set default app to Chrome before, all variants of the links should either a) link to YouTube app or b) open a dialogue asking for app selection. This depends on the user setting of course.
What do you see instead?
The vanilla link and _blank only links behaves as expected, but the one with rel=noopener would not link to YouTube app. (and other apps, in this case)
P.S. if it helps. This behaviour seems to resemble the result of manually entering the link in address bar, in which case intent is specifically turned off.( crbug.com/331571 )
Comment 1 by sheriffbot@chromium.org
, Sep 14 2016