Q1769 How to avoid the confirmation dialog box when closing a window in Internet Explorer?

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Q1769 How to avoid the confirmation dialog box when closing a window in Internet Explorer?

I noticed there were several attempts to combat this situation in the faqs but none worked for me. Then I stumbled upon the fact that IE only asks for confirmation if window.opener is empty. The code below works beautifully on IE but I have yet to try it in other pertinent browsers.

myWindow = window.self; 
myWindow.opener = window.self; 
myWindow.close();

Submitted by Karl Greenhalgh

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