Detect url change in site with HistoryAPI

Question

I am write browser extension for vk.com. This site use historyAPI to change url in adress bar and load content with ajax. I need detect URL change in my extension, and don't know how =( onhashchange don't work. In arsenal i am have jquery. Ssory for my english and please help.

I believe that onhashchange may only fail if you are not on modern browser. This question probably may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1930927/how-can-i-detect-an-address-bar-change-with-javascript — sajawikio, Sep 04 '12 at 05:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '12 at 14:54

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You should be using a progress listener in Firefox, onLocationChange method of the listener will be called for each change in the address bar. Please do not use polling - this will both waste CPU resources and drain battery in laptops.

chrome.webNavigation API provides a similar mechanism in Chrome. The onCommitted event should fire when the URL changes.

answered Sep 05 '12 at 14:54

Wladimir Palant

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What about Internet Explorer? – dSquared Sep 05 '12 at 15:54
@dSquared: Internet Explorer doesn't have anything one could call extensions. Which is probably the reason why it isn't mentioned in the tags of this question. – Wladimir Palant Sep 05 '12 at 16:54
An excellent point... my bad; thank you for pointing that out. – dSquared Sep 05 '12 at 17:52
Thank you. But sad about IE =( – propostaff Sep 07 '12 at 06:12

Detect url change in site with HistoryAPI

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