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I have a navigation issue in a SPA with React 16.12 and React Router 4.3.1 which only happens in the Firefox browser.
For example, starting from the URL /recommendedProducts I navigate to the URL /forms. If I reload the /forms page by pressing enter in the address bar, and immediately I press the browser back button, the URL changes to /recommendedProducts but it doesn't refresh. Investigating and comparing the behavior between Firefox and Chrome I noticed that the popstate event is not triggered in Firefox.
Here are the routes:
<Switch>
<Route path="/recommendedProducts" component={RecommendedProducts} />
...
<Route path="/forms" component={Forms} />
</Switch>
If, instead of reloading the /forms page this way, I press F5 all is OK, the browser back button works as expected.
Why Firefox doesn't trigger the popstate event and how can inform React Router to refresh the page?
EDIT:
I just find out this React Router issue, this is exactly the problem:
https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/issues/837

It seems that the problem has to do with the Firefox cache. As indicated in https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/issues/837 defining the unload event handler disables it.
Here the official docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/1.5/Using_Firefox_1.5_caching
Previously I tried also to use the pageshow and pagehide events by refreshing the page from there but they are not always triggered.

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