286609 - javascript:close() does not work, window won´t close.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Conrad Murguía Santana]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

I'm developing a web site, and included an image in a table to act as a close
button. I used href="javascritp:close()" to close the window and it works
perfect on IE6 SP2, but on Firefox I get a message on the javascritp console
thar reads "Scripts can´t close windows not opened by script".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Created slices from an image in Adobe ImageReady CS, saved them as HTML w/images.
2. Loaded the HTML file in Adobe GoLive CS, and selected the image in the cell,
asigning a "javascritp:close()" as  a link.
3. Save the HTML file do disk.
4. Loading the HTML file into Firefox, when you click on the close image, it
won't close the window.
5. Loading the HTML file into IE6, click on the close image, and the window closes.

Actual Results:  
The console gave the message stated avobe, and the window didn't close.

Expected Results:  
On click on the close image, the browswer window should have closed.

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-cygwin

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
--enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This is by design. See Bug 32571, INVALID