483386 - javascript:window.close() not closing window

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[L. Mohan Arun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090313 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090313 Minefield/3.2a1pre

In this page
http://www.aweber.com/form/thankyou_vo.html
(I dont know if it stores cookies or not and it is nota ccessible to other testeers - in that case visit bloggerhigh.com and sign up to get this page. There is a link to "Close this window" which page source shows javascript:window.close(). Doesnt work as expected. Works in IE7. Same page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL http://www.aweber.com/form/thankyou_vo.html
2. If that doesnt work go to bloggerhigh.com and sign up to be taken to this page
3. Click on close window
Actual Results:  
Window not closing

Expected Results:  
Window/tab to close

Comment 1

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

AFAICT window.close() can only close if the tab/window has been opened from the site with window.open() for security reasons. So INVALID?

Comment 2

[L. Mohan Arun]

It shouldnt matter how the website was coded - IE7 does close the window.

Comment 3

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

but IE7 does a lot of things that are not standard ;)

Comment 4

[L. Mohan Arun]

And Firefox and all other web browsers are expected to handle non-standard coding - and they do

Comment 5

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

oh, but even Opera closes the tab. So maybe I'm wrong..

Comment 6

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

DUPE of bug 451011?

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The default settings don't allow it but the user can change the value of the pref dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows to true if he wants.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

Comment 8

[L. Mohan Arun]

shouldnt this option be enabled by default? Many sites use javascript window close to close their tabs even when not opened through window open.

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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