It's a regression found in the post in 2021 and it still works in the wrong way.
According to the Apple guide about the "Open pages in tabs instead of windows", when the user sets it to "Automatically", a tab instead of a window is supposed to be opened.
window.open("https://www.apple.com", "_blank", "noopener, noreferrer")
is supposed to open a tab because the target we provided is the _blank
by default.
However, it will only open the tab when there is no third parameter if we set "Open pages in tabs instead of windows" to "Automatically".
In Firefox and Chrome, a tab by default is opened even with the third parameter provided. And it seemed like the older version of Safari also followed the same behavior.
The Safari version I'm using is 16.6 (18615.3.12.11.2).