popup open position in chrome

Question

When I'm using firefox and then using window.open('blah.com','blah','left=-30,top=-300');, the popup opens in my second display above my first one but in chrome, the popup just opens at left=0,top=0. Is there a reason why chrome is doing this and how would I fix the problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think this is a bug in Chrome to be honest but I'm not aware of a fix at the moment as I'm new to JavaScript myself. Sorry I'm sure this not the answer you were looking for.

Answer 2

This is a bug in Chrome when the pop-up window is opened on the secondary monitor. The Chrome folks seem to say that this is a security issue (though how this is a security issue is beyond me).

Now, opening a pop-up window on a NON-EXISTENT secondary monitor, I could understand is a security issue, but... whatever.

Here's a link to a discussion on the matter:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137681

Answer 3

I know this is an old post but here's my solution to it. Just use the "avail*" properties of the screen object:

var windowSize = {
    width: 500,
    height: 500,
};
var windowLocation = {
    left:  (window.screen.availLeft + (window.screen.availWidth / 2)) - (windowSize.width / 2),
    top: (window.screen.availTop + (window.screen.availHeight / 2)) - (windowSize.height / 2)
};
window.open(http://example.com, '_blank', 'width=' + windowSize.width + ', height=' + windowSize.height + ', left=' + windowLocation.left + ', top=' + windowLocation.top);

Basically, the "window.screen.availLeft" gives you the other screens width so you can add you're normal center calculation to that.

Answer 4

var w = 300;
var h = 300;
var left = (window.screen.width/2)-(w/2);
var top = (window.screen.height/2)-(h/2);

var win = window.open("example.html", "_blank", 'toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=no, copyhistory=no, width='+w+', height='+h);
win.moveTo(left, top);

for Chrome...

Answer 5

I know this post is old but I've had similar problems:

var w = 300;
var h = 300;
var left = (window.screen.width/2)-(w/2);
var top = (window.screen.height/2)-(h/2);

var win = window.open("example.html", "_blank", 'toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=no, copyhistory=no, width='+w+', height='+h+', top='+top+', left='+left);

--centers the popup window in Firefox but not in Chrome. Also, notice, this is not outside the display area...