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
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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)
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.
When I start Chrome, the new window appears as unfocused & behind the other windows. So I decided to create a workaround; I'll change my homepage url with a file from my disk which one contains javascript to steal focus and then redirect to real homepage.
What is the best method to steal focus, using javascript?
UPDATE: Here is what I attempted...
<html>
<head></head>
<body></body>
</html>
<script type="text/javascript">
myWindow=window.open("http://google.com", "_blank",
"resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, titlebar=yes" );
myWindow.focus();
self.close();
</script>
However new window looks like popup window, Chrome doesn't display toolbars & adress bar is not editable :(
More info about the bug:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/zyLC4Ip96pU
As far as I'm aware, this has only started on the latest update. If Chrome is already open, when I open a new window of Chrome from a shortcut in the quick launch area of my Windows toolbar, the new window does not take focus, the focus remains on the previous Chrome window. If the focus was not on the previous Chrome window when I launch the shortcut it works fine
I just published a small Chrome Extension which aims at solving this bug! So far it worked great for me (on Window 7 64-bit).
You can find it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-new-window-focus/opmhcfhkhiodgapmnaolhmekmfihmecp
Let me know if you encounter any issues!
Cheers,
Yuvi
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_focus.asp
The following javascript opens a pop-up in Firefox, Safari, IE, and Google Chrome:
window.open("http://google.com", "foo", "toolbar=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes")
However, in Google Chrome the toolbar (with the usual forward and back buttons, etc.) does not appear on the popped-up window. (Tested on both Windows and Mac.)
How can I fix this? I would like the user to be able to navigate forward and back using the tools with which they are most familiar.
There is a bug open for Chrome:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=82522
It has not received a lot of attention from Google. Vote for it.
Unfortunately Chrome only supports a small set of window features when using window.open. If you believe that this is a bug or an issue you can file it at [http://crbug.com].
If you just use window.open(url) then it will open a new tab in the same window with the buttons you desire.
Updating on current behavior (as of 4/26/2017)
The expected behavior should be a new PopUp Window when size dimensions are passed as arguments to window.open (if toolbar is enabled, then add the toolbar to the PopUp window). If no dimensions are indicated just default to opening a new tab (in this case toolbar enabled is the default).
(Btw, this is FF current Behavior (version 54.0a2)) .
Chrome Behavior (Canary 60.0.3079.0)
Opens PopUp Window to indicated dimensions
window.open("https://google.com","foo","width=800, height=780")
Opens New Tab (browsers default minimized size, ignores size dimensions)
window.open("https://google.com","foo","width=800, height=780,toolbar=1")
FF Behavior
w/Size Dimensions
Opens PopUp Window w/o ToolBar (NO toolbar)
window.open("https://google.com","foo","width=800, height=780")
Opens PopUp with ToolBar
window.open("https://google.com","foo","width=800, height=780, toolbar=1")
w/o dimensions
Opens New Tab
window.open("https://google.com","foo")
window.open("https://google.com","foo", "toolbar=1")
The only option for Chrome is to not specify a third argument. Chrome ignores the third argument as they are rightly allowed to do according to the HTML 5 specification, but if present the window appears to always open in a floating widow without controls.
If you do not specify a third argument the window that opens will be a new tab and will have all of the features the user needs.
If you do specify a third argument you will get a new floating window with no controls other than the URL display.
I know this is an old post, but the most recent answer is from September, 2013, so I am taking that as a reason to follow up with this answer. Advance apologies if this is not proper etiquette.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=82522
That's the link to the bug over on the Chrome support page.
I am posting it here in the hope that others experiencing this problem will raise attention to this issue, as suggested in a previous answer.
My apologies for posting this comment as a separate answer. I don't have enough karma to do this the right way.