#JAVA SCRIPT WINDOW CLOSE WINDOWS#

The browsing context of the incumbent script is allowed to navigate the browsing context A.Ī browsing context is script-closable if it is an auxiliary browsing context that was created by a script (as opposed to by an action of the user), or if it is a browsing context whose session history contains only one Document.

The browsing context of the incumbent script is familiar with the browsing context A.

The corresponding browsing context A is script-closable.

The close() method on Window objects should, if all the following conditions are met, close the browsing context A: This is a security feature, introduced a while ago, to stop various malicious exploits and annoyances.įrom the latest working spec for window.close():

#JAVA SCRIPT WINDOW CLOSE WINDOWS#

Ordinary javascript cannot close windows willy-nilly. While not entirely ideal and doesn't generalized to every case, it is a good solution in my case. Update: While much of what has been suggested has serious limitations and usability issues, the latest suggestion (specific to TamperMonkey) using // window.close in the script header will often do the trick even on those tabs that normally can't handle the close method. So does anyone have real, functional and proven method of closing a window using something like javascript:window.close() or javascript:self.close() that actually does what is expected and something that happens just fine in every browser that is NOT Chrome based? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I am looking for Javascript specific solution, nothing JQuery or third party implementation. That is patently false but regardless it is supposed to still do it, even if it requires to pop up an alert to confirm. Now there seems to be a belief that in Chrome you can't close by script any window that is not script created. The issue is that when I invoke window.close() or self.close() it doesn't close the window.

Java script window close