Chrome close all windows when closing update#
Chrome close all windows when closing code#
Chrome close all windows when closing plus#

125įrom my observation, this update fixed the issue on using window.close() to close the popup window. There currently is no equivalent setting for Chrome.Ĭhrome Fixed the security issues on version. If you ask anyone else to turn that setting on, they would be smart, and justified, to decline with prejudice. If your script is for personal use, go ahead and do that. So, the only javascript way is to cripple the security settings, one browser at a time. It only closes additional tabs.įirefox is secure against that exploit. Note that this will not work if there is only one tab open. Use an explicit and plain window.close().

Chrome close all windows when closing plus#

However, a variation still works on Chrome (v43 & v44) plus Tampermonkey (v3.11 or later).

So it's only useful in a very small set of circumstances.

Chrome close all windows when closing code#

It will still work from injected code only if the tab is freshly opened and has no pages in the browsing history. This is buggy behavior, IMO, and is now (as of roughly April 2015) mostly blocked. So code like this used to work in general: open(location, '_self').close() However, since the security risks, posed by window.close, are much less for a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey could reasonably provide this functionality in their API (essentially packaging the extension work for you).Ĭhrome is currently was vulnerable to the 'self redirection' exploit. These can reliably close the current window. The best way to deal with this is to make a Chrome extension and/or Firefox add-on instead. If you try to use window.close from a Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey / userscript you will get:įirefox: The error message, ' Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.' This method is only allowed to be called for windows that were opened by a script using the window.open method. The Firefox implementation flat out states: This means, with one small exception, javascript must not be allowed to close a window that was not opened by that same javascript.Ĭhrome allows that exception - which it doesn't apply to userscripts - however Firefox does not.

The browsing context of the incumbent script is allowed to navigate the browsing context A.Ī browsing context is script-closable if it is an auxiliary browsing context that was created by a script (as opposed to by an action of the user), or if it is a browsing context whose session history contains only one Document.

The browsing context of the incumbent script is familiar with the browsing context A.

The corresponding browsing context A is script-closable.

The close() method on Window objects should, if all the following conditions are met, close the browsing context A: This is a security feature, introduced a while ago, to stop various malicious exploits and annoyances.įrom the latest working spec for window.close(): Ordinary javascript cannot close windows willy-nilly. While not entirely ideal and doesn't generalized to every case, it is a good solution in my case.

Update: While much of what has been suggested has serious limitations and usability issues, the latest suggestion (specific to TamperMonkey) using // window.close in the script header will often do the trick even on those tabs that normally can't handle the close method. So does anyone have real, functional and proven method of closing a window using something like javascript:window.close() or javascript:self.close() that actually does what is expected and something that happens just fine in every browser that is NOT Chrome based? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I am looking for Javascript specific solution, nothing JQuery or third party implementation. That is patently false but regardless it is supposed to still do it, even if it requires to pop up an alert to confirm. Now there seems to be a belief that in Chrome you can't close by script any window that is not script created. The issue is that when I invoke window.close() or self.close() it doesn't close the window.