Back-Forward in Google Chrome disabled by internal error Ignoreeventandevict

Question

Recently I came across an issue whereby the Back-Forward Cache in Google Chrome was disabled and using the Back-Forward Cache debug tools revealed the issue was an Internal error Ignoreeventandevict. If you do a Google search for the error you'll find almost nothing about the error. I'm posting this question so that if others run into a similar issue they'll hopefully find this post.

The issue for me was that I had a pagehide event listener which was making a history.replaceState call. Removing the history.replaceState call resolved the issue. This isn't documented as-far as I can tell, it'd be nice if Chrome provided more detail of the error. Note I've not tested this in other browsers to see if they have a similar issue.

I hope this helps anyone struggling with the same Ignoreeventandevict error.

Answer 1

The history.replaceState call disables the Back-Forward Cache in Google Chrome if used in a pagehide handler.