[Greasemonkey] Closing firefox tabs

[Vectorspace]

I just tried top.close() from a GM script and I still got a "Scripts may 
not close windows that were not opened by script." message in the console.

Dave Land wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Steve Randles wrote:
>
> Scripts are prevented from using window.close() to dismiss windows 
> that they did not open to prevent script kiddies from maliciously 
> closing your windows for you...
>
> On the other hand, top.close() seems to do the trick.
>
> I suppose the general model, then, would be to write a GM script that 
> detects the page that is returned in response to a successful "buy" 
> button click, and execute top.close().
>
> I am sorry that I didn't take the time to write a script that does 
> this — but I did want to pass along a little experience from a guy who 
> found that window.close() merely logs "Scripts may not close windows 
> that were not opened by script."