popup open position in chrome

Question

When I'm using firefox and then using window.open('blah.com','blah','left=-30,top=-300');, the popup opens in my second display above my first one but in chrome, the popup just opens at left=0,top=0. Is there a reason why chrome is doing this and how would I fix the problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a bug in Chrome when the pop-up window is opened on the secondary monitor. The Chrome folks seem to say that this is a security issue (though how this is a security issue is beyond me).

Now, opening a pop-up window on a NON-EXISTENT secondary monitor, I could understand is a security issue, but... whatever.

Here's a link to a discussion on the matter:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137681

Answer 2

I know this is an old post but here's my solution to it. Just use the "avail*" properties of the screen object:

var windowSize = {     width: 500,     height: 500, }; var windowLocation = {     left:  (window.screen.availLeft + (window.screen.availWidth / 2)) - (windowSize.width / 2),     top: (window.screen.availTop + (window.screen.availHeight / 2)) - (windowSize.height / 2) }; window.open(http://example.com, '_blank', 'width=' + windowSize.width + ', height=' + windowSize.height + ', left=' + windowLocation.left + ', top=' + windowLocation.top); 

Basically, the "window.screen.availLeft" gives you the other screens width so you can add you're normal center calculation to that.