Hide the url bar on a pop up window [duplicate]

Question

When I use window.open() to do a pop up on a new window, I'm unable to hide the url bar. It still shows the url bar even though it's read only. Can I hide it? I do not want user to see the url.

Answer 1

In Internet Explorer 7 and later, you cannot remove the address bar in Internet Zone windows, for security (anti-spoofing) reasons.

— http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651%28VS.85%29.aspx

Answer 2

You cannot do that in other browsers (Firefox, Chrome) also so even if you could do it in IE, it would have been pointless. Won't it?