window bind POPSTATE

Question

Given the following:

$(window).bind(\"popstate\", function() {
    alert(\'popstate\');
});

On first load, the alert fires with FireFox and

Answer 1

The situation is now reversed. Chrome has fixed the bug and now fires popstate on page load but Firefox 4 (since RC) has departed from the spec and now does not fire popstate!

UPDATE: The HTML5 spec was changed in 2011 to state popstate should not fired on page load. Both Firefox and Chrome now do the right thing as of Firefox 4 and Chrome 34.