[WEB4LIB] Closing a browser window without a pop-up confirm?

[Andrew Mutch]

Carol,

The pop-up warning is a deliberate behavior and part of the browser's
security model.  Otherwise, anyone could create a web page with
Javascript code that could deliberately shut down your browser.
Netscape 4 did support a method of bypassing the security model but I
don't know of a way to do that in IE 5.5.  How were you looking to use
this close method?  There might be other ways to accomplish the same
thing without using Javascript.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Carol Brown wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a way to automatically close a
> browser window without the confirm message popping up. I
> have tried closing the browser with different JavaScript
> commands but they all pop up with a confirm message before
> closing the browser. We only need this to work on our public
> workstation which will be running Windows 2000 with Internet
> Explorer 5.5.
>
> Do any of you have any suggestions as to how I can do this?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Carol
>
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