Close firefox tab from javascript

Question

I want to close Firefox tab from JavaScript. Please do not misunderstand me. I am not trying to close popup window but tab. I know JavaScript cannot close the window which it has not opened. Therefore I tried below code but it works in all browsers but not in Firefox.

window.open('','_self','');
Window.close();

Answer 1

If you have a single/few-user page and you have access to the Firefoxes you can change the about:config settings.

dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows = true

This might be a big security issue!

(Tested with Firefox 27 on Linux)