245975 - window.close() of javascript is not closing the browsers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183697

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[jaffar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

A page containing a button "Close" close the window, which was opened by the
user. When i click on the "Close" button, it is not closing the window. it shows
a  warning in the Javascript Console as "Scripts may not close the windows that
are not opened by the script".



Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a page with a button
2.add "Javascript:window.close()" script to that button

Actual Results:  
window is not closed

Expected Results:  
Window to be close

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Just like the error says.  If the window wasn't opened by a Javascript, then
window.close is not allowed to close it.

This is the correct behavior and by design.

Comment 2

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

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