Re: Proposal: Detecting when the user leaves a page due to hitting the back button or typing in a URL or going to a favorite

Shropshire, Andrew A wrote:
> I am working a dialog problem now and I have discovered another problem
> with Onbeforeunload:
> 
> It is called even for javascript URLs which clearly aren't exiting the
> page.

I believe this is only the case in some browsers.  For example, 
IE/Windows does this, but Gecko-based browsers do not, last I checked.

-Boris