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FAQ Topic - How do I modify the current browser window?
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In a default security environment you are very limited in how much
you can modify the current browser window.  You can use
`window.resizeTo` or `window.moveTo` to resize or move a
window respectively, but that is it.  Normally you can only
suggest chrome changes in a `window.open`.

<URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651%28VS.85%29.aspx>
<URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM:window.open>


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In comp.lang.javascript message <4c7994fb$0$50444$14726298@news.sunsite.
dk>, Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:00:03, FAQ server <javascript@dotinternet.be>
posted:

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>In a default security environment you are very limited in how much
>you can modify the current browser window.  You can use
>`window.resizeTo` or `window.moveTo` to resize or move a
>window respectively

Not necessarily.  In my Opera 10.61 Build 3484 and in my Chrome
5.0.375.127, neither of those methods works.  I'm fairly sure I've not
turned them off; presumably they are off by default.

Therefore, the FAQ should probably say something about detecting whether
they have worked.

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