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Messes with back/forward history navigation

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When I’m on GitHub in a source file (history index n) and go back in chrome (n-1), sometimes only the URL bar changes to the previous (n-1) URL but the content stays the same (n), when this extension is installed. Then I have to reload or go back (n-2) and forward (to n-1) to get to that page (n-1). This shouldn’t happen, please fix it 😃

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Created 6 years ago
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fiatjafcommented, Nov 25, 2017

I was able to reproduce.

It’s probably related to jquery.pjax, as it is used by GitHub itself, but also by Module Linker (so we can have the same navigation features of GitHub). The way I glued it into the code was somewhat hacky, because it doesn’t seem to do what I was expecting it to do (probably my misunderstanding), so I bet the answer lies there.

I need some help here, please.

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fiatjafcommented, Nov 25, 2017

The return is there to guarantee we don’t run the initialization function twice. But why would this initialization change the URL of the page?

Maybe what’s happening is that when we press Back for some reason jquery.pjax fails to load the previous page, but does change the URL. Perhaps the first step to debug it would be to listen for their events.

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