How to test multiple tabs in Cypress

Pro-tip: Stub the window object.

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A trade-off of Cypress is that they will never support multiple browser tabs.

In most cases, that is perfectly fine. If you are testing an application that visits another application by clicking a button, then you only want to verify the hyperlink is correct. You can't control the other application's behavior. So by choosing to test it loads…