Comments on: Resetting the DOM and JavaScript when using the ‘Back’ button in FireFox

By: Luiz Doná

Luiz Doná — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:02:27 +0000

Works for me!

By: Mike Harrison

Mike Harrison — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:37 +0000

Thank you so much! This solved a major problem I was having with a jQuery drop down menu.

By: BA

BA — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:32:55 +0000

Cheers dude, i was pulling out what was left of my hair with this problem!!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:53:30 +0000

These events may be defined in the body tag too, like here :

function noBack(){window.history.forward();}

… blabla…

This works flawlessly in FireFox as MSIE.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:17:37 +0000

Hi – this behaviour is due to Firefox 1.5+’s bfcache, as you found out.
New events were introduced to be able to deal with the kinds of problems you found.
Check out this page http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_Firefox_1.5_caching
Essentially you need to do window.addEventListener(“pageshow”, someFunction)