Close Pop up window in Forefox 4.0 using java script.

[kartik reddy]

Hi does anyone have a code to close the browser window using Firefox 4.0?
This code needs to be used to close a pop-up window.

When I open a window and try to press the button to close it, it doesn't work in Firefox 4.0.
Code is: javascript:window.close();

[Eric Pascarello]

Did you open it up with window.open?
Eric

[kartik reddy]

Hi Eric,

It works fine when I use with window.open
i.e., When I open a window using window.open() and try to press the button to close it using javascript:window.close(), it works fine.
But the most interesting thing is when I don’t use window.open() and try to close the current window it doesn’t work.
Could you please give any suggestion, how to proceed further?

[Bear Bibeault]

If you didn't open the window, you can't close it.

[kartik reddy]

Ok, is there any alternate solution for that?

[Bear Bibeault]

No. It is a security restriction.

[Eric Pascarello]

Older versions of browsers have hacks to close the window, but that is coding against a browser flaw. It is talked about a lot here in the past. Modern day browsers have the flaw patched in most cases.

Eric

[kartik reddy]

Thanks a lot for giving inputs on this issue.

- Kartik