window.close() and self.close() not working on Chrome, looking for new solution

[mexica...@gmail.com]

Our JavaScript to close the current window/tab after the user clicks OK, is no longer working.  I have researched it on line and tried several suggestions without success.

self.close(), window.close(), top.close() - returned error "Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script."

I see other people having the same error.

Tried variations like,

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

var win = window.open('', '_self'); win.close()

Also tried,

                function closeWindow(){

                        chrome.tabs.query({currentWindow: true, active: true}, function(tab){ // Get the current tab

                                chrome.tabs.remove(tab[0].id); // Remove the tab

                        });

                }

Also failed.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[PhistucK]

Copying almost the same reply from the other thread -

I do not see this error anywhere in the code.

I do see "Scripts may close only the windows that were opened by it", though. And this review suggests that the message you quoted is actually a Firefox message, so make sure you are posting to the right browser.

Generally, you cannot close windows that were opened by the user. Calling window.open("", "_self") is not opening a new window, it is reusing an existing window and as such, is not supposed to make it closable all of a sudden, I believe.

If you could close a window that you did not programmatically open, then it was a bug and it must have simply been fixed.

chrome.tabs is an extension API, not available to web pages (you can create an extension that will close windows for you, though).

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[toke...@gmail.com]

 This is impossible to do

[che...@isritechnologies.com]

Not working any code.

Please help me

[Daniel Bratell]

Hi,

If you think this is a bug then you are probably better off filing a bug report with the necessary information to reproduce the problem. As the error message you commented indicate, it's intentional that sites can't close a tab/window unless they were the ones that opened it. If that is what you see, then it is as it's meant to be.

In general, I think StackOverflow might be a good place to ask web development questions. Unless you think it is a Chromium/Blink bug because then this is the place and the bug reporting site, https://crbug.com/ , is even better.

/Daniel

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