window.close is not working in chrome

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Hi,

This code is working fine as it close the current window and open software in new window With IE but not working with Chrome

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<html>
<head>
<title>Contentverse Online</title>
</head>
<script>
function closeCurrentWindow() {
            var version=0;
            if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1){
                        var temp=navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE");
                        version=parseFloat(temp[1]);
            }
            if (version>=5.5 && version<=6) {
                        this.focus();
                        self.opener = this;
                        self.close();
            } else {
                        window.open('','_parent','');
                        window.close();
            }
}
</script>
<body>
<script>

window.open("Sign.asp?Home=C:/Program Files/ViewWise Online&VWOFlavor=Full","myWindow",'top=0,left=0,width='+screen.width+',height='+screen.height+',status=yes,resizable=no,scrollbars=yes');
closeCurrentWindow();
</script>
</body>
</html>

Posted 4-Nov-13 19:24pm

Rayan Khan

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VICK 5-Nov-13 2:24am

Why dont you try .replace method to simply replace your new windows url in previous one??

or get the reference to the old window and than close it using reference. like.

var win = window.open("about:blank", "_self");
win.close();

or you can left the first parameter value blank.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-11-04T19:45:00

This code is abusive, to certain extent. You are opening new windows by code, which is equivalent to creation of pop-up window. This is considered as evil, and many users will block it. And then you try to close a current window, without user's consent. If some site does it to me, I usually put it to my black list. This is nasty.

I suggest you review this design. Logically, your code is equivalent to redirection to other URL, and this is what you should do. You force the user's browser window size and other parameter, but you don't know and don't use the screen size. How you know that the user would like it? The size of the window should be decided by the user, in almost all cases.

One more problem: there are no situations where a hard-coded file path, such as your "C:/Program Files/ViewWise Online" can be useful. How do you know that a client even has such thing as disk "C:". Even on Windows, this is not always the case, and on other platforms those stupid "C:" and "D:" never exist. Again, this design is unacceptable.

What to do? You can get an advice is you share your ultimate goals.

—SA