[Greasemonkey] Re: Closing firefox tabs

[Bill Donnelly]

unless you request and allow 'extra privileges' which tends to be a pain

Vectorspace wrote:
> I think you mean if the window was opened from javascript... :)
>
> If the window was opened by a script it can be closed by a script.
>
> Otherwise it cannot be.
>
> Nikolas Coukouma wrote:
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>> Steve Randles wrote:
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>>> What I want to be able to do is to simply close the firefox tab when 
>>> the
>>> "buy" button is clicked, so that I buy and then the tab goes away.
>>>     
>> If the script was opened from JavaScript, then it can be closed from JS.
>> For exmple:
>> a = window.open()
>> alert(a) // pause
>> a.close()
>>
>> However, the following  does not
>> close() // equivalent to window.close()
>>
>> The error is:
>> Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script.
>>
>> This does seem like a good candidate for a GM_ api function.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - -Nikolas
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