history.scrollRestoration

[ghost]

Unification of behavior, and ability to control, the scroll restoration behavior by the browser when using the history API (to prevent undesired automatic page scrolls on popstate, etc).

• Just adopted by Chrome
• Specs
• Easier to auto-test with 'scrollRestoration' in window.history

[cvrebert]

https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5657284784947200

[Ugoku]

+1

[laukstein]

Chrome 46 (landed) https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477353
Firefox 46 (landed, will ship in April 2016) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1155730
Webkit (in progress) https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147782

[nkronlage]

Safari Tech Preview Release 26 added support for this property:

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/release-notes/

[Schweinepriester]

+1

Support in Safari & iOS 11 per https://webkit.org/blog/7956/new-webkit-features-in-safari-11/:

Support for history.scrollRestoration was added to give developers control over when to maintain scroll position when a user navigates back through browser history.

MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/API/History#Browser_compatibility

[Fyrd]

Now available at https://caniuse.com/#feat=mdn-api_history_scrollrestoration