190752 - javascript call window.close() should close the current browser tab of mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183697

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Jerry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125

<form>
<input type="button" value="OK" onclick=window.close()>
</form>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.(ctrl+t open on tab, access the testcase
2.click the button

Actual Results:  
nothing happened

Expected Results:  
close the tab

opera support this feature,
  
and netscape 7 support this, too.

Comment 1

[Jerry]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You can't close windows or tabs you did not open.  If the script opens the
window, it can close it.

Comment 3

[Jerry]

bz, I know the reason why mozilla changed its behavior.
but there are many sites using this feature,
   and it works fine with netscape 7.
and I think it is a good feature.

can it be turned on by preference setting?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> can it be turned on by preference setting?

Yes. pref("dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows", true);

Jerry, I don't think any feature which allows windows with the information and
history in them to be closed is a good feature....

There is also a bug on having a confirmation dialog in such cases so the user
can decide whether to close the window -- bug 190515.  I'd call this a duplicate
of that one, if not invalid, but over to Mitch to sort out this whack-a-mole game.

Comment 5

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

I'm going to call this wontfix.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'd call this a dup of bug 190515 (which should be wontfix IMO).  Btw,
window.close() correctly closes just one tab when called and allowed in a tabbed
window.

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 253522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183697 ***