firefox browser back button doesn't refresh the page

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My app is running fine on chrome but in Firefox (v 32.0) , it's creating one problem.

As after log out, if go back by clicking the browser's back button. It should not allow to go back and load the previously visited page.

I have coded well to achieve this and works fine everywhere. It works fine in chrome also. But in case of firefox browser's back button, it's not refreshing/reloading the page and simply shows the previously visited page.

I think If I make it reload the page on back button clicking then it'll be solved.

For this, I tried by the following code on that page:

<input type="hidden" id="refreshed" value="no">
    <script type="text/javascript">
    onload=function(){
      console.log("method called.......");
    var e=document.getElementById("refreshed");
    if(e.value=="no")
     {
       e.value="yes";
      }
    else
      {
       e.value="no";
       location.reload();
      }
    }
    </script>

But it didn't work.

Any suggestion please ?

Consider using the HTML5 History API instead of relying on stateless behaviours. — Niels Keurentjes, Sep 22 '14 at 11:39
try adding `Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate, no-store` header to the page in question. — Kami, Sep 22 '14 at 12:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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I doubt that your code works, I cannot see how it will ever reach the else because onload happens only once at page load, and reload will call it again on the next page load. To prevent the back button, you can use window.onbeforeunload.

More details here : how to stop browser back button using javascript

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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