How to know whether refresh button or browser back button is clicked in Firefox

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How to know in Firefox whether refresh button is clicked or browser back button is clicked    for both events onbeforeunload   method is a callback  For IE I am handling like this    function CallbackFunction event        if  window event            if  window event clientX  lt  40  amp  amp  window event clientY  lt  0                alert  back button is clicked             else              alert  refresh button is clicked                   else             want some condition here so that I can differentiate between            whether refresh button is clicked or back button is clicked            lt body onbeforeunload  CallbackFunction     gt     But in Firefox event clientX and event clientY  are always 0  Is there any other way to find it

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For Back Button  in jquery     http   code jquery com jquery-latest js   jQuery window  bind  unload   function          and in html5 there is an event The event is called  popstate   window onpopstate   function event    alert  location      document location      state      JSON stringify event state         and for refresh please check  Check if page gets reloaded or refreshed in Javascript  In Mozilla Client-x and client-y is inside document area https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API event clientX

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var keyCode   evt keyCode  if  keyCode  8  alert  you pressed backspace     if keyCode  116  alert  you pressed f5 to reload page

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Use  event currentTarget performance navigation type  to determine the type of navigation  This is working in IE  FF and Chrome   function CallbackFunction event        if window event            if  window event clientX  lt  40  amp  amp  window event clientY  lt  0                alert  back button is clicked             else              alert  refresh button is clicked                   else          if  event currentTarget performance navigation type    2                alert  back button is clicked                      if  event currentTarget performance navigation type    1                alert  refresh button is clicked

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Use for on refresh event  window onbeforeunload   function e      return  Dialog text here         https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API window onbeforeunload redirectlocale en-US amp redirectslug DOM 2Fwindow onbeforeunload  And    window  unload function           alert  Handler for  unload   called

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