Google chrome doesn't open multiple mail clients - javascript

I have the following code in which I am trying to open multiple mailclient
It works in Firefox but dont work in Chrome
<button class="button">Open Email</button>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.button').on('click',function(){
window.location.href = "mailto:user#example.com?subject=Subject&body=message%20goes%20here";
window.location.href = "mailto:user#example.com?subject=Subject2&body=message%20goes%20here";
});
});
Here is the fiddle to it
Anyone knows whats the reason behind this , or is there any other technique to do this?
Thanks

Chrome allows only one opened window per user action. If opening new browsers window was the issue, you could tell the popup blocker to allow it, but this is not possible when launching email windows. You could either require two user actions (e.g. two buttons) or you could make a web based mail form to do the same thing (if you're using the mail client of tracing purposes, just make it send a copy to yourself.

If you want to open multiple links you shouldn't use window.location.href, it opens link in current window and you cant really have more than one link opened in one window. You should use window.open(your_url) for that, but beware, it will create popup windows.
From a browser perspective mailto is a link like any other, so assigning it to window.location.href twice in a row is like fast-clicking two links in a page, browser will process only one of them.
And the last, code from your question not working even in FF if you use browser based mail client, like gmail.

You could supply 2 links for the user tp open the email clients manually, you could also open the client, refresh the page (indicating something on the url for the second one) and then open the second one?

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Problem is this: Since modern web-browsers disable pop-up windows I am in need of a work-around.
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});
Check this fiddle.

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