Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by scrip

[harilal]

Hi Fire Fox Team,
We are getting an error
"Scripts may close only the windows that were opened by it" while using the code

window.open('','_self').close(); (or what ever the code that i got by goggling for closing the window)

and it's calling in the on load script using "window.onload=closeBr;"

We want to auto close the browser when user log out .

Is there any solution for this issue?

-Thanks & Regards,
Harilal.A.S.

[patrickjdempsey]

We want to auto close the browser when user log out .

Is there any solution for this issue?

-Thanks & Regards,
Harilal.A.S.

Websites are not allowed to close the browser.

[DanRaisch]

Moving to Web Development.

[trolly]

An extension may be able to do this.

[harilal]

An extension may be able to do this.

Could you please share your thoughts on this?

Thanks & Regards,
Harilal.A.S.

[trolly]

An addon/extension has higher access rights and may monitor a specific web site and close firefox. Personally, I have no real idea how to do this. You may ask in the "Extension development" forum.

[harilal]

An addon/extension has higher access rights and may monitor a specific web site and close firefox. Personally, I have no real idea how to do this. You may ask in the "Extension development" forum.

Thank you, I will analyse more on this option.

The real bottle neck is that, the auto close is working for some other browsers irrespective of versions. And the end users going to use this. So in common we are not able to force end users to use a specific browser or not ask to change some settings on browser. And the end users may consider this as a bug in development other than browser issue.

So am searching more on this....

[trolly]

Basically, allowing to close a browser by a web page is considered a security risk by Mozilla.

[jscher2000]

You can display a message that says "You can close this window now". I think your users should be able to handle that.

[patrickjdempsey]

The real bottle neck is that, the auto close is working for some other browsers irrespective of versions.

Like IE? You cannot use IE as a judge as to what safe browser behavior is.

[harilal]

You can display a message that says "You can close this window now". I think your users should be able to handle that.

Hi,
We already tried to show the message (exactly the one that you told) instead of closing the browser, but the client team not satisfied
Thanks & Regards,
Harilal.A.S.

[harilal]

The real bottle neck is that, the auto close is working for some other browsers irrespective of versions.

Like IE? You cannot use IE as a judge as to what safe browser behavior is.

Hi,
Not tested in IE, but in "Safari" the auto close feature is working fine (Our clients commonly work with Mozilla Fire Fox, Safari, Chrome, IE etc)
Thanks & Regards,
Harilal.A.S.

[patrickjdempsey]

Like IE, Safari will also automatically run installable files when you download them. Again, Safari is not a good example of safe browser behavior.

[trolly]

If this is allowed some hackers may be able to inject an advertisement that closes the browser when the user tries to close or leave the site. It is not really a good idea to allow that.
And if the user has scripts disabled it will not work anyway.