window.location make chrome jump with jquery mobile

Question

When clicking on a link, I am generating a link to a clickonce app via an ajax call. When ajax returns the generated link successfully I set window.location = my_generated_link;

This works well in IE9, ie the clickonce is downloaded and I stay at the current page,

however in Chrome the I am navigated back to a previous page

(the clickonce will still be downloaded however, but its annoying to be navigated away from my current page).

Anyone got ideas?

Answer 1

make sure your window.location =newlocation is execute after completing your ajax request may be your window.location = my_generated_link; execute before your ajax request

like this

$.ajax({
  url: "test.html",
  context: document.body
}).done(function() { 
  window.location = my_generated_link;
}); 

Answer 2

Take a hidden IFrame and give my_generated_link url to the source of that Iframe. Also add a parameter cofc_goback=false to the my_generated_link ie

my_generated_link = my_generated_link + "&cofc_goback=false";
$('iframe').prop("src",my_generated_link);

This worked perfectly for me in all the browsers.