[removed].hash refresh in Chrome?

Question

I was doing some snooping on the web and found window.location.hash = \"etc\" to be a widely adopted method to update the browser\'s location without reloading

Answer 1

var r='#hello';
if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome/')!=-1){
 top.history.pushState("", "", r);
 return;
};
if(r.charAt(0)=='/'){
  top.location.replace(r);
 }else{
  top.location.hash=r;
};

Worked for me. And it actually took me a long time to figure this out. Firefox also supports the history object now, so we may be able to get rid of the whole "hash" thing in a few years.

EDIT: Yes, the reloading thing is a Chrome bug.