I guess what I want to do is not possible.
I would like open a new window using javascript, this is easy:
popup = window.open('www.google.es', 'titlebar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,resizable=no, top=0, left=0, type=fullWindow,fullscreen,scrollbars=yes');
but I want this new window opens in Internet Explorer whatever the parent was. So, I'm navigating in crhome, and opens the new window in IE.
Is it possible?
You can do it the other way around, that is force to open a link in Edge from an IE page,
window.open("microsoft-edge:http://www.google.com");
but it seems that it's not possible to use a similar command to force a link to open in IE.
It can be achieved using javascript and ActiveX (if enabled) but I can't use this in an enterprise environment (too risky)
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My requirement is to open URL in new tab in IE browser using javascript. Could you please suggest me the best way.
I wrote following code , but it did not open redirectUrl in new tab in IE browser.
window.open(redirectUrl, '_newtab');
window.open() works different in each browser. in Chrome, it will open in a new tab, in IE (11) users need to define if it open in a new window or a new tab in settings, basically there is no way to use window.open to force IE to open in a certain way by javascript.
I have a GWT application which has many firefox windows. I need functionality to close all these windows with a single click on a button. I know the window.close() function, but it only closes the current window.
I wonder if there is a firefox plugin or anything what can help me achieve this functionality.
In Firefox the File menu contains an Exit button what terminates the program, but i can't find a way to call this from javascript.
You cannot close other windows with script that didn't open them. But
var newWindow = window.open( url );
newWindow.close();
will open new tab with url and then you will be able to close it with newWindow.close();
When a new window is opened with window.open(), a reference to the new window is returned.
This means var window1 = window.open("example.com", "windowName"); will allow you to close the this new window later with window1.close();
Windows are often opened this way to address your problem, though if the windowName specified existed already, the existing window would be used to load the page instead, and the variable would refer to the existing window.
EDIT: This explains browser windows and associated window control JavaScript here
I created a simple firefox add on using addon-builder that installs & successfully appears in the add on toolbar at the bottom of the browser.
If I press ctrl-n, open new tab, open new window, or open private browsing window in firefox, then I see and can use my addon. However, if another site programmatically opens a window using window.open(), then my addon doesn't appear.
Is this by design? Or is there a setting that I can include in my addon so that it always appears, even if the window was opened through window.open() instead of ctrl-n?
When sites open with window.open, they specify which parts of the browser UI will show. You may be able to place it somewhere less likely to be removed, like the navigation toolbar. The add-ons toolbar sounds like it's going away soon, anyway.
Running Firefox 12.0. I'm just starting to write a app that I want to run on localhost. I want it to open it in a (600,400) window, but since I have Firefox set to open everything in tabs I thought I could bookmark it and right-click to open it in a new window.
$(document).ready(function() {
window.resizeTo(600,400);
});
Doesn't work. Is what I am trying to do possible?
Thanks, Jim
This isn't possible, unless the window was opened through javascript using window.open and has only 1 tab in it.
Since Firefox 7, it's no longer possible for a web site to change the default size of a window in a browser, according to the following rules:
- You can't resize a window or tab that wasn’t created by window.open.
- You can't resize a window or tab when it’s in a window with more than one tab.
MDN docs
I am using Google Chrome Frame (GCF) with IE9 and when I open a javascript dialog it opens in a tab instead of a dialog.
My IE setting for 'Tabbed Browser Settings' -> 'When a pop-up is encountered:' -> 'Let Internet Explorer decide how pop-ups should open'
I use this javascript to open a window:
window.open("http://google.com/", "_blank",
"location=0,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no");
If I change the IE setting to 'Always open pop-ups in a new window' it works. The problem lies in that I need to change that setting on every IE9 computer in the company and the computer administrators are hesitant to do this.
According to Microsoft documentation if you specify a width/height it will open in a dialog but this is not the case when using GCF.
Is there anything I can do (other than changing the setting) that will force the dialog to open in a new window instead of a tab?
Also IE is crafty it tells you it changes the setting but sometimes it actually doesn't so when testing close out of the browser all the way after changing the setting (I got all excited once after it 'worked' but it was actually the setting not updating in IE).
You have to use the rel="noreferrer" in a standard link (no window.open).
I went through reams of documentation trying to figure this out.
Fortunately ChromeFrame isn't needed as much since IE11 seems to support most things (although IE11 has a horrible memory leak).
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