How To Close Browser Windows In Windows Internet Explorer 7

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Paulo Morgado — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:36:18 GMT

Thanks, Glenn.

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Glenn Rumfellow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:16 GMT

Thank you! I wish your page was ranked higher in Google! I'll try to get people to link to it.

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Paulo Morgado — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:18:21 GMT

Glad to be of help!

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Gilad Balas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:02:33 GMT

Thanks a lot !

took me two hours to find this post.

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Paulo Morgado — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:15:07 GMT

Does the sample page not work with you?

I think that Micorsoft's intention is to prevent these kind of hacks from being possible.

And I agree. As a user, I don't like web sites that open windows on my desktop and I also don't like web sites that try to close windows that I excplicitly opened.

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Bob Garringer — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:49:02 GMT

Please email an answer to me at bobgarringer@yahoo.com, if you can help.

I'm not a webmaster. I've copied and pasted some html to accomplish some things on a website. Otherwise, I'm pretty well lost when it comes to the kinds of fixes you deal with.

How do I get to the text to do what you suggest above?

I've downloaded IE 8, because a tech from Microsoft indicated that, in version 8, they intended to solve the "webpage-is-trying-to-close-the-tab" issue. The problem persists, however, with a little more delay than in 7.

Help if you can. And also explain to me how you guys can solve the problem with a little effort and Microsoft cannot.

Bob

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Paulo Morgado — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:26:07 GMT

It's working fine here on IE8.

What error are you getting?

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Ethrad — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:42:56 GMT

First button asks the same question, whether I'd like to close the browser or not, and the other button receives an error on page message.

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Magic — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:38:22 GMT

Thanks,

It's a Nice Job Man. !

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Paulo Morgado — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:11:38 GMT

I'm glad you're happy.

THANK YOU!!!!!

Fabian (Brazil) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:42:08 GMT

thanx!!, thanx!!, thanx!! man!

I hope you use this way of explaining things to solve others computing problems

its the only tip that worked for me with IE 7 tabs

thank you again God Bless you

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Paulo Morgado — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:50:36 GMT

As a user I really hate sites that open windows just because and sites that close windows I opened.

I haven't tried it on IE8, but I'll try and bug it if this script works.

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Steven Ray — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:03:14 GMT

I learned that this added script only works in the below listed "failed" browsers if the document was initially opened by javascript, not _self or hyperlinked.

I tried this script and it works in IE6, IE7, Netscape 7.6, Firefox 1 and Firefox 1.5, but not in Netscape 8.0, Firefox 2 or Firefox 3.

The above script is merely exploiting a loophole in Explorer, however this loophole has been fixed in the above mentioned browsers in which it does not work. I suppose Internet Explorer will soon follow suite and close the loophole as well, rendering this workaround obsolete? Wish there was an effective solution that covered all the browsers.

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Steven — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:06:14 GMT

Wonderful for Explorer, but doesn't work at all in Firefox.

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Chris — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:41:46 GMT

Simply fantastic, I've been scouring the net for this. Thank-you so much

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Ted — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:37:45 GMT

My bad. It does work.

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Ted — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:25:41 GMT

Both the solution and the modification did not work on IE7 for me on an ASP.NET page. Is there something other than the JavaScript I need to know?

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sid — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:50:21 GMT

hey that was great!

I looked at lot of web pages but

javascript was the best

thanks!

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Paulo Morgado — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:34:12 GMT

It's working for mim on Vista x64 SP1.

Have you tried Michal's solution?

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Ernie — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:51:57 GMT

Doesn't work in IE7 on Vista