How to focus the parent page from child window in Firefox?

Question

I am calling the parent page javascript function from child window with code below, which displays some alert message on parent page and closes the child window.

window.opener.CallAlert("test is"+test);
opener.focus();
self.close();

What is happening with above code snippet is alert comes on parent window but focus remains on child window. i need explicitly go to parent window. Once I click ok on alert child window closes.

Everything is fine but I want the to focus on parent window once i call the window.opener.CallAlert() from child window.

Edit

Looks like opener.focus(); works on IE but not mozilla. Any workaround for firefox?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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It would appear that this is not guaranteed to work and is at the discretion of the browser.

See this thread: window.opener.focus() doesn't work

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Jan 21 '14 at 22:34

Kildareflare

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '13 at 15:41

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just try the obvious:

window.opener.focus();

answered Jan 22 '13 at 15:41

hereandnow78

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it does not work. It works only when i maximize the popup. Without maximize it does not work. – emilly Jan 22 '13 at 15:44
see this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7281758/window-opener-focus-problem-in-ff5 – hereandnow78 Jan 22 '13 at 16:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '13 at 13:22

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try with delay setTimeout(function(){self.close()},300) and then display alert on parent page. It will schedule to close the current window after some delay automatically with display of alert message on parent signal

answered Jan 27 '13 at 13:22

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How to focus the parent page from child window in Firefox?

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