sessionStorage on new window isn't empty, when following a link with target=“_blank”

Question

I see different behaviors of the HTML5 sessionStorage when following Weblinks. Sometimes the sessionStorage of the first page is being copied to the TargetPage, sometimes I

Answer 1

Once again an ancient question but I didn't find any answers to this problem on this site and I just had this same problem with Firefox 44. I found a workaround and you can find it here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35596134/3751509

Hope this helps.