diff --git a/src/ng/sniffer.js b/src/ng/sniffer.js
index 585519b34847..c8648fecd67d 100644
--- a/src/ng/sniffer.js
+++ b/src/ng/sniffer.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ function $SnifferProvider() {
   this.$get = ['$window', '$document', function($window, $document) {
     var eventSupport = {},
         android = int((/android (\d+)/.exec(lowercase(($window.navigator || {}).userAgent)) || [])[1]),
+        boxee = $window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Boxee') != -1,
         document = $document[0] || {},
         vendorPrefix,
         vendorRegex = /^(Moz|webkit|O|ms)(?=[A-Z])/,
@@ -55,7 +56,10 @@ function $SnifferProvider() {
       // so let's not use the history API at all.
       // http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17471
       // https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/904
-      history: !!($window.history && $window.history.pushState && !(android < 4)),
+
+      // older webit browser (533.9) on Boxee box has exactly the same problem as Android has
+      // so let's not use the history API also
+      history: !!($window.history && $window.history.pushState && !(android < 4) && !boxee),
       hashchange: 'onhashchange' in $window &&
                   // IE8 compatible mode lies
                   (!document.documentMode || document.documentMode > 7),
diff --git a/test/ng/snifferSpec.js b/test/ng/snifferSpec.js
index 2206a271839a..eea6fb5c2791 100644
--- a/test/ng/snifferSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/snifferSpec.js
@@ -316,4 +316,27 @@ describe('$sniffer', function() {
     });
 
   });
+
+  describe('history', function() {
+      it('should be true on Boxee box with an older version of Webkit', function() {
+          module(function($provide) {
+              var doc = {
+                  body : {
+                      style : {}
+                  }
+              };
+              var win = {
+                  navigator: {
+                      userAgent: 'Boxee'
+                  }
+              };
+              $provide.value('$document', jqLite(doc));
+              $provide.value('$window', win);
+          });
+          inject(function($sniffer) {
+              expect($sniffer.history).toBe(false);
+          });
+      });
+
+  });
 });