Make clicking an external link in Firefox close the popup

src/deepLink.ts

@@ -229,12 +229,3 @@ export const getGitKrakenDeepLinkUrl = (provider: FocusViewSupportedProvider, ur
 
 	return getGKDotDevLinkUrl(redirectUrl);
 };
-
-export const openGitKrakenDeepLink = (provider: FocusViewSupportedProvider, url: string | null) => {
-	const deepLink = getGitKrakenDeepLinkUrl(provider, url);
-	if (!deepLink) {
-		return;
-	}
-
-	window.open(deepLink, '_blank');
-};

src/popup/components/ConnectAProvider.tsx

@@ -1,44 +1,41 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import { GKDotDevUrl } from '../../shared';
+import { ExternalLink } from './ExternalLink';
 
 export const ConnectAProvider = () => {
 	return (
 		<div className="connect-provider-container">
 			<div className="connect-provider-prompt text-center">
 				<div className="text-2xl bold">Connect an integration to see all of your pull requests</div>
 				<div className="provider-buttons">
-					<a
+					<ExternalLink
 						className="provider-button text-sm text-secondary"
 						href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/settings/integrations?connect=github`}
-						target="_blank"
 					>
 						<img src="img/github-color.svg" height={24} />
 						<div>GitHub</div>
-					</a>
-					<a
+					</ExternalLink>
+					<ExternalLink
 						className="provider-button text-sm text-secondary"
 						href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/settings/integrations?connect=gitlab`}
-						target="_blank"
 					>
 						<img src="img/gitlab-color.svg" height={24} />
 						<div>GitLab</div>
-					</a>
-					<a
+					</ExternalLink>
+					<ExternalLink
 						className="provider-button text-sm text-secondary"
 						href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/settings/integrations?connect=bitbucket`}
-						target="_blank"
 					>
 						<img src="img/bitbucket-color.svg" height={24} />
 						<div>Bitbucket</div>
-					</a>
-					<a
+					</ExternalLink>
+					<ExternalLink
 						className="provider-button text-sm text-secondary"
 						href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/settings/integrations?connect=azure`}
-						target="_blank"
 					>
 						<img src="img/azuredevops-color.svg" height={24} />
 						<div>Azure DevOps</div>
-					</a>
+					</ExternalLink>
 				</div>
 				<div className="text-sm text-secondary italic">
 					*Only cloud-hosted providers are currently supported.

src/popup/components/ExternalLink.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { tabs } from 'webextension-polyfill';
+
+type ExternalLinkProps = {
+	children: React.ReactNode;
+	className?: string;
+	href?: string;
+	onClick?: () => any;
+	title?: string;
+};
+
+export const ExternalLink = ({ children, className, href, onClick, title }: ExternalLinkProps) => {
+	return (
+		<a
+			className={className}
+			href={href}
+			rel="noreferrer noopener"
+			target="_blank"
+			title={title}
+			onClick={async e => {
+				// Opening external links in Firefox will not cause the popup to automatically close,
+				// so we must manually close it.
+
+				// Closing the popup window before the link has finished opening will cause Firefox to open
+				// the link in a new window instead of in a new tab. In order to prevent this, we manually
+				// open the link in a new tab and await that, then close the popup window afterwards.
+				e.preventDefault();
+
+				if (onClick) {
+					await onClick();
+				}
+				if (href) {
+					await tabs.create({ url: href });
+				}
+
+				window.close();
+			}}
+		>
+			{children}
+		</a>
+	);
+};

src/popup/components/FocusView.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { GitProviderUtils } from '@gitkraken/provider-apis';
 import { useQueryClient } from '@tanstack/react-query';
 import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import { storage } from 'webextension-polyfill';
-import { openGitKrakenDeepLink } from '../../deepLink';
+import { getGitKrakenDeepLinkUrl } from '../../deepLink';
 import { ProviderMeta } from '../../providers';
 import { GKDotDevUrl } from '../../shared';
 import type {
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
 } from '../../types';
 import { useFocusViewConnectedProviders, useFocusViewDataQuery, usePullRequestDraftCountsQuery } from '../hooks';
 import { ConnectAProvider } from './ConnectAProvider';
+import { ExternalLink } from './ExternalLink';
 
 type PullRequestRowProps = {
 	userId: string;
@@ -22,17 +23,17 @@ type PullRequestRowProps = {
 
 const PullRequestRow = ({ userId, pullRequest, provider, draftCount = 0 }: PullRequestRowProps) => {
 	const queryClient = useQueryClient();
+	const deepLinkUrl = getGitKrakenDeepLinkUrl(provider, pullRequest.url);
 
 	return (
 		<>
 			<div className="pull-request">
 				<div className="pull-request-title truncate">{pullRequest.title}</div>
 				<div className="repository-name text-secondary truncate">{pullRequest.repository.name}</div>
 				<div className="pull-request-number">
-					<a
+					<ExternalLink
 						className="text-link"
 						href={pullRequest.url || undefined}
-						target="_blank"
 						onClick={() => {
 							// Since there is a decent chance that the PR will be acted upon after the user clicks on it,
 							// mark the focus view data as stale so that it will be refetched when the user returns.
@@ -41,32 +42,25 @@ const PullRequestRow = ({ userId, pullRequest, provider, draftCount = 0 }: PullR
 						title={`View pull request on ${ProviderMeta[provider].name}`}
 					>
 						#{pullRequest.number}
-					</a>
+					</ExternalLink>
 				</div>
-				{pullRequest.url && (
-					<a
-						href="#"
-						onClick={() => {
-							openGitKrakenDeepLink(provider, pullRequest.url);
-						}}
-						title="Open with GitKraken"
-					>
+				{deepLinkUrl && (
+					<ExternalLink href={deepLinkUrl} title="Open with GitKraken">
 						<i className="fa-brands fa-gitkraken icon text-link text-lg" />
-					</a>
+					</ExternalLink>
 				)}
 			</div>
 			{draftCount > 0 && (
-				<a
+				<ExternalLink
 					className="pr-drafts-badge text-disabled"
 					href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/drafts/suggested-change/${encodeURIComponent(
 						btoa(pullRequest.uniqueId),
 					)}?source=browserExtension`}
-					target="_blank"
 					title={`View code suggestion${draftCount === 1 ? '' : 's'} on gitkraken.dev`}
 				>
 					<i className="fa-regular fa-message-code icon" />
 					Code Suggestion{draftCount === 1 ? '' : 's'}
-				</a>
+				</ExternalLink>
 			)}
 		</>
 	);

src/popup/components/SignedIn.tsx

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { logoutUser } from '../../gkApi';
 import type { PermissionsRequest } from '../../permissions-helper';
 import { GKDotDevUrl } from '../../shared';
 import type { User } from '../../types';
+import { ExternalLink } from './ExternalLink';
 import { FocusView } from './FocusView';
 import { RequestPermissionsBanner } from './RequestPermissionsBanner';
 
@@ -45,9 +46,9 @@ export const SignedIn = ({ permissionsRequest, user }: { permissionsRequest?: Pe
 						<div>{user.name || user.username}</div>
 						<div className="text-sm text-secondary">{user.email}</div>
 					</div>
-					<a href={GKDotDevUrl} target="_blank" title="Open gitkraken.dev">
+					<ExternalLink href={GKDotDevUrl} title="Open gitkraken.dev">
 						<i className="fa-regular fa-arrow-up-right-from-square icon text-lg" />
-					</a>
+					</ExternalLink>
 				</div>
 				<button className="icon-btn" onClick={onSignOutClick} title="Sign out">
 					<i className="fa-regular fa-right-from-bracket icon text-lg" />

src/popup/components/SignedOut.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import type { PermissionsRequest } from '../../permissions-helper';
 import { GKDotDevUrl } from '../../shared';
+import { ExternalLink } from './ExternalLink';
 import { RequestPermissionsBanner } from './RequestPermissionsBanner';
 
 export const SignedOut = ({ permissionsRequest }: { permissionsRequest?: PermissionsRequest }) => {
@@ -9,13 +10,13 @@ export const SignedOut = ({ permissionsRequest }: { permissionsRequest?: Permiss
 			{permissionsRequest && <RequestPermissionsBanner permissionsRequest={permissionsRequest} />}
 			<div className="sign-in-prompt">
 				<div className="text-2xl bold">Sign in to view your Pull Requests</div>
-				<a className="sign-in-link text-sm text-secondary bg-02" href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/login`} target="_blank">
+				<ExternalLink className="sign-in-link text-sm text-secondary bg-02" href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/login`}>
 					<img src="img/gk-logo-36.svg" height={36} width={36} />
 					Sign in with GitKraken
-				</a>
-				<a className="text-link" href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/register`} target="_blank">
+				</ExternalLink>
+				<ExternalLink className="text-link" href={`${GKDotDevUrl}/register`}>
 					Create an account
-				</a>
+				</ExternalLink>
 			</div>
 		</div>
 	);