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Re: <body onload="self.close();"> won't work on Firefox 1.0.7?
From: Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 20:03:51 CET
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 20:03:51 CET
stevong wrote:
> I've also tried to create a function. It doesnt work on Firefox also.
> Bottomline is: Firefox doesn't accept window.close() or self.close()?
It depends on the browser settings whether script is allowed to do
certain things like closing windows. Usually script can only close a
window that has been opened by script (window.open) but Mozilla probably
can be configured to completely disallow script to close windows.
Firefox 1.5 gives a message
"Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script."
in the JavaScript console if window.close() fails on a window that has
not been opened by script. I think Firefox 1.0.x does the same but can't
check currently.
-- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/Received on Tue Feb 7 21:14:11 2006