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Bug 345507

Summary:	[client] navigator opened on root loses browser history
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Susan McCourt <susan>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mamacdon
Version:	0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Susan McCourt

2011-05-11 18:47:51 EDT

During M7 (bug 336261) I ensured that the navigator did not mess with browser history.  We had some problems with the forward button on chrome.

Now I observe that on both FF4 and Chrome, navigating to the root of the navigator will blow away browser history.  

This could have been introduced by several changes:
- dojo 1.6.1
- the "multi file client hash hack." 

If you use the navigator anywhere but the root, the browser history is preserved.  But if you link to "navigate-table.html" or "navigate-table.html#" using the header links or breadcrumb root, then all browser history is lost.

In general I've found that setting the hash using dojo.hash("url") messes up the browser history.

Is the hash hack to be removed soon (so we can rule this out as the source of the problem?)  Wondering if our static links to nav root should change to something like "navigate-table.html#/file/"?

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2011-10-27 13:23:44 EDT

this bug is no longer valid, I tried to break the browser history by going to the nav root in multiple ways (primary nav link, root breadcrumb, etc) and the history remains intact (tested FF7, Chrome 14)