window.onload not triggered when user navigates but does when refreshing the page

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I have a Chrome extension with a content script that must be injected when the url matches the rule. the thing is, if I refresh the page, it's working, but if I navigate to the url (it does match the pattern) then the event is not triggered.

Any idea why?

Edit: Take into account that it's based on a web app and I've tried using the webNavigation event and still doesn't work.

Edit: Ok, so a working solution (in Chrome at least) is to use the onHistoryStateUpdated event handler.

Showing us your code would help... – Dragonthoughts Jun 09 '18 at 21:00 — Dragonthoughts, Jun 09 '18 at 21:00

Rajat Jain · Answer 1 · 2018-06-10T07:50:40.147

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Possibly due to the cache saved in your Browser. If you hard refresh it, then it will run the whole script again. You can use the following code:

$(window).bind("load", function() {
   // code here
});

You can also try this function:

window.onpageshow()

edited Jun 10 '18 at 07:50

answered Jun 09 '18 at 16:37

Rajat Jain

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I cleaned my browser's cache and still doesn't work. – Dave Lester Jun 09 '18 at 16:40
Have you tried it opening in a new browser which is never used? – Rajat Jain Jun 09 '18 at 16:41
No. It's a chrome extension. – Dave Lester Jun 09 '18 at 16:42
I found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3628536/history-back-doesnt-trigger-document-ready but it still doesn't work :S – Dave Lester Jun 09 '18 at 19:37

window.onload not triggered when user navigates but does when refreshing the page

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