Open New Tab and Close the Current Tab

Question

Is there any easy work around to close the current tab and open a new tab by javascript?

Answer 1

Try below :

window.open('http://www.google.com','_blank');window.setTimeout(function(){this.close();},1000)

Answer 2

you can use location.replace for same goal:

window.location.replace('https://stackoverflow.com/');

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/replace