Google Chrome "window.open" workaround?
The other answers are outdated. The behavior of Chrome for window.open depends on where it is called from. See also this topic.
When window.open is called from a handler that was triggered though a user action (e.g. onclick event), it will behave similar as <a target="_blank">, which by default opens in a new tab. However if window.open is called elsewhere, Chrome ignores other arguments and always opens a new window with a non-editable address bar.
This looks like some kind of security measure, although the rationale behind it is not completely clear.
This worked for me:
newwindow = window.open(url, "_blank", "resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, titlebar=yes, width=800, height=900, top=10, left=10");
The location=1 part should enable an editable location bar.
As a side note, you can drop the language="javascript" attribute from your script as it is now deprecated.
update:
Setting the statusbar=1 to the correct parameter status=1 works for me