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Bug 345507 - [client] navigator opened on root loses browser history
Summary: [client] navigator opened on root loses browser history
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2011-05-11 18:47 EDT by Susan McCourt CLA
Modified: 2011-10-27 13:23 EDT (History)
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 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 CLA 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)