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The IE doesn't show address bar for popup

I am on the parent page from which I use javascript in jsp, to open a popup and I used the method window.open("url","windowName"," width,height,locastionx, locationy") to get a popup. Everything works fine in all browsers(like Mozilla, Chrome etc) except that the Popup doesn't show the url or address bar in Internet Explorer 10.

I am attaching the screenshots for reference

The following screenshot is a popup from IE

IE10

The following is a screenshot of popup from Mozilla

Mozilla

Is there a way in which the window.open method which will show address bar in the IE?

Thanks for helping

I did read in few online blogs that the behaviour of the popup is different with the IE7 or above than in the Mozilla or the Chrome browsers.

Solution

  • I've been busting my head around this problem a couple of days, I've browsed a lot of sites to find the answer, finally I discovered that IE when you run your code in a local environment it hides the URL bar, but when I run it in a Test/Prod server the address is shown (not showing the URL address is clearly a security flaw), this just happens only in IE, which is annoying, for FireFox and Chrome work as intended, and it's kind of a headache if you need to test because it may seem like an error or bug.

    Here are the links that should make the things clearer:

    Complete cross-browser window.open() documentation -> here

    MSDN open method notes -> here

    Server Fault question about IE trust policies related to the URL bar -> here