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Opener

By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: After you have opened a popup or popunder window the new window is able to reference the window that opened it using the opener object. This is not a reserved word so you can declare your own variable or function called opener but if you do then you will not be able to reference anything on the web page that opened this new window.
Examples:
opener.focus();
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