Javascript:closing Firefox command

albatros_la · 08-16-2006, 03:44 AM

Is there a way to close the entire Firefox window through a javascript command? I've found out this:

Code:

<button onclick="javascript:window.close()">Close</button>

which works good but closes only the last tab opened an not the whole browser window if there are more than one tabs.

Thanks in advance for the help...

jlliagre · 08-16-2006, 03:54 AM

I don't think so, javascript is supposed to target only windows it has control to, for security reasons.

albatros_la · 08-16-2006, 04:52 AM

Thank you jlliagre. I'm writing a bash script and I want to close the whole window. So I supposed to do that through javascript making firefox load a page with that command within. Do you know any other way to close selectively a window without killing the entire process? I've tried with xkill -id window_id, but it kills firefox-bin and so the other windows opened. It's a strange trouble because firefox doesn't open multiple instances but a process only without any parents, so it's hard to control windows from outside the task!

dinojerm · 08-16-2006, 11:45 PM

Firefox does have a BrowserCloseWindow() function in its browser.js file, but it can only be called by the browser itself or by an extension. While it is fairly simple to create an extension that will close the window when at the press of a toolbar button or something like that, I don't know of a way to run code from an extension from the command line.

kalleanka · 08-17-2006, 03:53 AM

Intressting. I need some thing similar.

albatros_la · 08-24-2006, 08:21 AM

Maybe there's a simpler way to send commands directly to firefox. It acts something like a dcop server. Googling outthere I've found bash strings like:

Code:

firefox -remote 'ping()'

or

Code:

firefox -remote 'openURL(www.google.com, new-window)'

If anyone knows how that works, maybe it's possible to use such a syntax in order to control the browser internal functions... Unluckyly I didn't find nothing but those examples above!