Tracking a child window across page loads

Question

Is it possible to track a child window if the parent page is reloaded?

I currently open the window like so:

  var childWindow;
  childWindow= window.open('url...');

and when I want to reopen the same child window I do

 childWindow.focus();

The obvious problem is that if the parent window is refreshed then it loses track of the childWindow and can't focus it. Is there any way to get my reference to the child window back?

Answer 1

Maybe you could use the name parameter (second one) used in window.open() to "reload" your popup when the parent window reloads... ?