Bug 26534 – window.location.hash doesn't update until change tab

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: History

[Robert Dougan]

This occurs in the latest Nightly and also Latest release of Safari.

You can view the error here:
http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/history/history.html

Or simple open web inspector and type:
window.location.hash = "#hello"

It will not appear straight away, you must open a new tab/switch to an existing tab then activate the previous tab again, then it appears.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

*** Bug 26535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Given the size of the JavaScript behind that page, it's hard to see where the problem is.  We could do with a reduced test case that contained only the code relevant to demonstrating the problem.

[Robert Dougan]

Created attachment 32121 [details]
Testcase for the bug

[Robert Dougan]

I don't get it, this is a critical bug- LOADS of modern/web 2.0 websites use the hash for history management. Would this not need to be fixed ASAP?

[Jack Godwin]

Is there any known workaround for this bug?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I cannot reproduce this with Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I open the attached test case, click "Add hash", and "#hello" is immediately appended.

I also tried doing 'window.location.hash = "#hello"' in Web Inspector - that works, too.

Do you have any "Safari enhancers" installed? It's possible that this is not a WebKit or Safari bug at all.

[Mihai Parparita]

I'm also not able to reproduce this (either with the attached testcase or with http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/history/history.html). Please re-open if you observe this happening with either Safari 5.0 or a WebKit nightly.