How to ensure that the user's tab is closed when he clicks on a link?

Question

JavaScript

Situation:
The user's email has a button "Add article to favorites". Is it possible to close the tab that will be opened when this button is clicked?
window.close() is blocked by Crome because the tab was not created via window.open()
Is it possible to solve the problem by passing a specific header?

Answer 1

no
way

Answer 2

it is necessary to ban such sites with such needs

Answer 3

It was still possible 20 years ago.
If I'm not mistaken, then in modern realities, now each Chrome tab is a separate process, which another process has no right to influence.