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		TazeTSchnitzel on April 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: URLs are for People, not Computers I don't really want to add it to the user's history, though. Breaking the back button is bad.

duncans on April 6, 2013 [–]

In that case you use `history.replaceState()`, or just plain old `window.location.replace('url')`

TazeTSchnitzel on April 6, 2013 | [–]

Well, the latter would cause a reload, but the former sounds good. I'll try it, thanks!

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