192564 - the javascript: close does not close the window of the enlarged photo

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[KCastleman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.2.1

Javascript methods embedded on web pages should work. They do not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a web page that has a simple javascript method such as <a
href="javascript:self.close();">Close</a> on it.
2.  Click Close


Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Window should close.

Javascript console constantly reports errors even on a page that has no javascript,
rendering it useless.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with win2k build 20030210..
why should this block Mozilla development ? -> normal

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

WFM 1.3b/OS X [2003021017]

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is the window that calls window.close() opened by the web site, or by the user?

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

This is per design: Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.

This can be permitted in a given profile by setting
|user_pref("dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows", true);| in prefs. js, but
you must shut down the browser before editing that file, or the changes will 
be overwritten.

Comment 5

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

*** Bug 276662 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***