BUG: Firefox 3.0.19 with history:true enabled only reloads page Created Jun 9, 2010

I experienced this bug too although i put it more loose terms.

http://flowplayer.org/tools/forum/20/43056

FF 3.0.19 is still widely used in some environments. As far as I know, a lot of UN agencies have it.

But ... is anybody interested in fixing this bug or whatever loose words I may use... It just flashes screen, it is a bug.

You're not alone. I see this too and have had history set to false until it's resolved.

I see it in FF3.6 and IE8. Chrome 5 and Safari 5 don't appear to exhibit the issue.

The "flicker" or "flash" from the page loading twice isn't that noticeable in FF. However, users can see it in IE.

If I look in the history of IE and FF, I can see the page in question listed twice. It's only listed once in Chrome and Safari. Once I set history to false, no flicker and the page is only listed once.

Just checked FF 4.0 Beta. The reload is there as well.

need to understand this issue a bit more.

I'm using Firefox 3.6 now and the annoyance I experience is that with little screen the page scrolls to the beginning of the page on the first tab.

I don't truly understand what does this flicker or "listed twice" behaviour mean. Please explain a bit more. Unfortunately I don't have Firefox 3.0.

Thanks to everyone for bringing this up.

It is best to try on FF 3.0.19. The main page just reloads itself so you can not see or work with this browser using history. It reloads so fast the content comes for half second, that is why it seems like the page flickers. In reality it is just reloading forever.

Hi all, any news on a fix for this issue? We'd really like to enable history:true, but this bug is a real issue.

http://github.com/jquerytools/jquerytools/issues#issue/77

a bit hacky to go and and add this to the code, but it does seem to fix the problem.

I replaced:

window.location.hash = hash;
with
if (window.location.hash||hash.replace("#","")!=="") window.location.hash = hash;

in toolbox.history.js

Hope this helps!