Using JS to Click an <a> Tag Doesn't Work

Hello.

When you try to programatically click an <a> tag, the samsung browser doesn't actually go to the page specified.

Consider this snippet:

    const hiddenAnchorTag = window.document.createElement('a');

    hiddenAnchorTag.hidden = true;
    hiddenAnchorTag.target = '_blank';
    hiddenAnchorTag.href = 'googlechrome://navigate?url=www.test.com';

    this.$window.document.body.appendChild(hiddenAnchorTag);

    hiddenAnchorTag.click();

When this is executed, it should open up the Google Chrome app. But here is what actually happens:

If you haven't allowed pop-ups yet for the website that ran this code:
- Then a notification appears saying that a pop-up was blocked with a button that says 'allow pop-ups'. When you click 'allow pop-ups', then it opens up the google chrome app like expected.
if you already allowed pop-ups for the website that ran this code:
- Then a new tab is opened up with the 'googlechrome://navigate?url=www.test.com' appearing in the navigation bar but Google Chrome did not open up.

Furthermore if I have this:

<a href='googlechrome://navigate?url=www.test.com' target='_blank'></a>

And I manually click on that then it will always open up Google Chrome in both cases of 1 and 2.

There is a bug here.

SamsungInternet / support

Using JS to Click an <a> Tag Doesn't Work #75