Firefox 3.5 Browser window close using javascript

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posted 13 years ago

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Hello ranchers,

Iam developing a web application using J2EE, Javascript technologies. In my application i have a signout button in every page to allow user to signOff from the application including closing the browser window.

I used the following code to close the browser window, below code works fine in IE7+ but unfortunately does not work in Firefox 3.5.

After goggling i realized that, in Firefox, browser windows opened only through javascript (using window.open) can be closed pro-grammatically. So i found that below code is a solution for this. But above code doesn't work from firefox 3.5. Any alternate solution for this ?

Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and attention.

Eric Pascarello

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If you did not open the window, you should not be allowed to close it.

What you are trying to exploit is bugs in the browser, and hopefully the bugs have been patched, hence why it does not work.

Eric

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Hey,

Your answer is here stack overflow question, it works but as you will still see you get a security warning from Firefox before it continues with the operation.

I agree with what Eric says though, you should not be doing this.

Sean

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