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How can I close a window with Javascript on Mozilla Firefox 3?

rated 0 times [ 169] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 102646 / 15 Years ago, fri, april 17, 2009, 12:00:00

I need to close the tab which displays my webpage, by the click of a button. But firefox does not allow to close the window by javascript as long as it is not opened by javascript.
If I set the value of dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows to be true, then even normal window.close() works too. But that is not a good solution. :(

I tried the following workaround suggested in one of the forums:

<script language=javascript type=text/javascript>

function closeWindow() {

   window.open('','_parent','');

   window.close();

}

</script>

It is supposed to fool the browser into thinking that it was actually opened by javascript, but this does not work in Firefox 3.

Can anyone please suggest a workaround?

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answered 15 Years ago kenyonmasonc · Accepted Answer

function closeWindow() {

    netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege(UniversalBrowserWrite);

    alert(This will close the window);

    window.open('','_self');

    window.close();

}



closeWindow();