# Auto-close after new pop-up? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [November 16, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226 "2002-11-16T04:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/21 "2002-11-17T05:43:16Z")
Finally!! It turns out MS disabled that way of closing a window without asking because…well I dont know why…but I read something [here](http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/32/pid/216/qid/82344) that explains how to get around it. Thing is, I have no idea what they are talking about…the solution is near the end. Anyone want to explain? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/22 "2002-11-17T05:50:45Z")
If you read the whole thing you would have read that IE didn’t disable this notification, they disabled the way to stop it. I noticed the same OBJECT method was used that I used to prevent this. They said as of IE6 SP1, you will recieve an error because IE disabled this feature. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/23 "2002-11-17T05:56:40Z")
Okay, pardon my ignorance, but that means…? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/24 "2002-11-17T05:59:05Z")
Sorry, I am highly distracted tonight ☹ That means that the method they use in that forum thread you showed me, was the same method I used in the .zip file earlier in this thread. But as h88 and you recieved this error, it is because you have the latest build of the IE browser. My method of doing this has been disabled in the new IE browser build (IE6 SP1). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/25 "2002-11-17T06:01:45Z")
Oh…I see. Thanks for clearing that up…things go right over me sometimes. So basically there is no [known] way around this as of now? Oh well…it won’t kill the visitor to manually close the window. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/26 "2002-11-17T06:05:55Z")
Nope, no known way right now. At least that I have found ☹ Nah, most sites with a pop up have the user manually close the window, it is common practice. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/27 "2002-11-17T06:08:24Z")
Thanks again for all your help, I would have been pulling my hair out by now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226/28 "2002-11-17T06:13:05Z")
LOL, no problem 🙂 I probably would have too, I usually try to find any way possible to the solution, but I am just really out of it and distracted, and now that I know that the new IE doesn’t support it, it saved me the trouble…lol. Good luck with the rest of your site 🙂 [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/auto-close-after-new-pop-up/8226.md?page=1)