# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop preview webview target=_blank link handling

## Open now

- 0 issues, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- PR #82393: fix(desktop): route target="_blank" out of the Preview webview (#81660)

A bug report and multiple fix attempts addressing how links with target="_blank" behave in the Hermes desktop app's integrated preview webview. The approaches vary, with some routing such links in-place and others routing them externally.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #101190: \[Bug\]: links with target="_blank" do nothing in Hermes Desktop app's integrated browser pane

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#82393: fix(desktop): route target="_blank" out of the Preview webview (#81660)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#81777`, `#82393`, `#100733`, `#107264`, `#101190`, `#73900`, `#81660`, `#101782`
  - files: `apps/desktop/electron/main.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/webview-window-open.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/electron/webview-window-open.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-pane.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview-pane.tsx`
- **#101325: fix(desktop): handle target="_blank" new-window in preview webview (#101190)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#82393`, `#100733`
- **#107264: fix(desktop): route target=_blank links in place in the preview webview (#101190)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#82393`, `#100733`, `#73900`, `#101325`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`