I'm not sure it will work for you, but you might look at the pageshow and pagehide events:
http://www.webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/ http://www.webkit.org/blog/516/webkit-page-cache-ii-the-unload-event/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en/using_firefox_1.5_caching On 31 Oct 2011, at 11:26, Amit Agarwal wrote: > works, but I forgot to mention. I want something which works only on tab > close but not on refresh. Basically a close listener but an unload listener. > > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Diego Perini <diego.per...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can try using the "onunload" or "onbeforeunload" events of that tab > window. > > Diego > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Amit Agarwal <lifea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How to detect tab close event in webkit based browsers? > > -Amit > > > > -- > > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ > > > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com