window.close and self.close do not close the window in Chrome

Question

The issue is that when I invoke window.close() or self.close() it doesn\'t close the window. Now there seems to be a belief that in Chrome you can\

Answer 1

Despite thinking it is "patently false", what you say "seems to be a belief" is actually correct. The Mozilla documentation for window.close says

This method is only allowed to be called for windows that were opened by a script using the window.open method. If the window was not opened by a script, the following error appears in the JavaScript Console: Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script

You say that it is "supposed to still do it" but I don't think you'll find any reference which supports that, maybe you've misremembered something?