$locationChangeSuccess not fires with browser back and hash is empty

[fspezi]

I am using angular 1.3.16, in Google Chrome.
I found a wrong behavior of $locationChangeSuccess event.

To reproduce:

• open a page like "path/#"
• click to a link to go to a page like "path/#arg=123"
• click to a link to go to a page like "path/#arg=555"
• now, click to "Back" button of browser. You will go to "path/#arg=123"; $locationChangeSuccess event is fires.
• click another time to "Back" button of browser. You will go to "path/#"; sometimes, $locationChangeSuccess event is NOT fired ($locationChangeStart is fired).
• click to "foreward" button of browser. You will go to "path/#arg=123"; $locationChangeSuccess is fired.
• click to "back" button of browser. You will go to "path/#"; $locationChangeSuccess is NOT fired.

I found in "angular.js" source code that there is a comparison between $location.absUrl() and newUrl local variable. $location.absUrl() returns "path/", and newUrl returns "path/#".
Row 11486: if ($location.absUrl() !== newUrl) return;

This comparison is made after "$locationChangeStart" and before "$locationChangeSuccess". The comparison do exit by function.

The $succes

[juniorjpf]

fspezi, i've tried to reproduce this bug, but no success. Can you make a example into Plunker http://plnkr.co/ or post here your files ?

[fspezi]

I develop a test page. I discovered that the issue fires if the path ends with "/" like "www.acme.com/", or "www.acme.com/path/".
You can download code from here, then install to local website, so you will open 'index.html' as default page of folder.
Then, follow step, and watch fired events below.
The last step fires the Start event but not the Success event.

(you can open the code in my local server )

[Deklin]

This issue exists in 1.4.4 as well.

[timmolendijk]

I think this demo illustrates the same issue. It uses version 1.4.6. Maybe it's helpful.

http://output.jsbin.com/zihoza/quiet/