"window.opener" works fine in both IE and Firefox as long as 'Open in New Tab' is used from the right-click menu; Error console says "window.opener" is null. Is there any other way the opener can be accessed?
Edit: Error console says "window.opener" is null only when "Open in New Tab" is clicked. For all other cases, there is no such error. Hence, what i would like to know is if an alternate other than "window.opener" exists.
it's window.open() IIRC
window.opener
only works if the window (or tab, if it was diverted into a tab) was opened withwindow.open
or via atarget
attribute or similar. In particular, the UI never sets the opener of a window.