window.close and self.close do not close the window in Chrome

Question

The issue is that when I invoke window.close() or self.close() it doesn\'t close the window. Now there seems to be a belief that in Chrome you can\

Answer 1

In my case, the page needed to close, but may have been opened by a link and thus window.close would fail.

The solution I chose is to issue the window.close, followed by a window.setTimeout that redirects to a different page.

That way, if window.close succeeds, execution on that page stops, but if it fails, in a second, it will redirect to a different page.

window.close();
window.setTimeout(function(){location.href = '/some-page.php';},1000);