I'm doing an Angular app in which a table's rows has a button each, and on click of these buttons a new tab should be opened for the row that button is on.

I needed to pass parameters into the new tab created this way. I've declared the parameter in the state initialization:

```
.state('viewlisting', {
   url: "/listings/:id",
   params: {
     'action': '',
   },
   controller: 'ListingsController',
   templateUrl: "partials/listings/view_listing.html"
 });

```

and the button has something like this:

```
ui-sref='viewlisting({id:"+data+", action:"images"})'

```

The params are passed in, everything works as expected.

```
//URL: /#/listings/42
$state.params.action //returns "images"
$state.params.id //returns "42"

```

But adding `target="_blank"` to the `<a>` tag causes the $state.params object to return the following:

```
//URL: /#/listings/42
$state.params.action //returns ""
$state.params.id //returns "42"

```

I've searched for hours, I've looked at the ui-router documentation and the issue tracker for something that addresses my situation but I've found nothing. 

Are state parameters not passed on `target='_blank'`'ed `ui-sref` links?