# Mailto needs to open new window for browser clients

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-needs-to-open-new-window-for-browser-clients/289319>\
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**Created:** [May 28, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-needs-to-open-new-window-for-browser-clients/289319 "2009-05-28T21:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![foxdog175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@foxdog175](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foxdog175)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-needs-to-open-new-window-for-browser-clients/289319/1 "2009-05-28T21:56:13Z")

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Currently, mailto will close out the flash site and navigate to a browser-based email client. What I’d like it to do is open a new window which it would use to open the email client, instead of using the same window (which closes out the flash site to open the email client).

I tried:

getURL(“mailto:emailAddy”, “\_blank”);

But this didn’t do the trick. Any way to do this?