onbeforeunload breaks events in Chrome 4

[menno]

Steps to reproduce:

• create a page with an onbeforeunload event
• try to reload/close the page and see the browser dialog appear
• choose to stay on the page

Expected result:

All events are still attached to their DOM elements.

Actual result:

No events are being fired anymore.

The problem appears to be "return (new Date).getTime()" in the function now() which doesn't return anything valid anymore after the canceled reload. If I change the function to return "(new Date).valueOf()" it seems to fix the problem.

See the attached HTML for a testcase.

[menno]

Since the bug is originally caused by Chrome's faulty new Date().getTime() I've created a bug in Chromium's tracking system as well:

​http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33441

[svcorp77]

Chrome 5.0.375.70 beta: fixed

[dmethvin]

Sounds like this was not a jQuery bug, and now that the Chrome bug is fixed I'll close this ticket.