Question

Given the following flow:

1) User clicks on a link, opens a popup window.
2) User does some things, clicks on a button to save changes.
3) Using AJAX, some data is POSTed.
4) In the AJAX response handler, the popup is closed and the main window refreshed.

There is a problem in FireFox 2, where closing the popup within a response handler fails (until some user activity, such as mouse movement, is performed on the window).

Sample code (popup window only):

function ajax_cb()
{
    window.close();
}

// Send a POST request, ajax_cb will be called when readystate == 4.
function test_ajax_close()
{
    Request.sendPOST("file:///test.html", "", ajax_cb);
}

In the above sample, the window will eventually close, but first requires user interaction. According to this link:

Firefox gets unhappy if it still has a socket open doing an async AJAX request and you attempt to do a window.close().

Answer 1

just wrap your close in a short timeout..

setTimeout(window.close, 100);

It shoould be enough time for the socket to finish closing, and the poopup to self-close.