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==Opening a new browser window==
[[Category:Redirects]]
To open a new browser window, you can simply use <code>window.open</code>.  However, <code>window.open</code> returns a <code>DOMWindow</code>, not a <code>ChromeWindow</code>, so you can't get access to the browser chrome from it. You can, however use [http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIWindowMediator.html nsIWindowMediator] to get the window you just opened.
 
===Example===
<pre>window.open();
var wm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"]
    .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
var newWindow = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
var b = newWindow.getBrowser();</pre>
 
[[Category:Example code|Opening a new browser window]]

Latest revision as of 21:44, 6 February 2007

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