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All of the apps fail this test:

1. Go to main page. 2. Enter a long comments section. 3. Scroll down. 4. Hit back (back to main page again). 5. Hit forward (back to comments section).

Expected: Scroll position is restored.

Actual: Scroll position is not restored (most of them), back is broken (Svelte), scroll is some random place (Polymer).

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Weird. Just tried using the Polymer app in Safari and it worked fine. I'm guessing different browsers handle this case differently.

Edit: Just tried again using Chrome, back + forward consistently took me to the same scroll location.

Edit 2: Ahh, Chrome doesn't restore scroll position correctly if you scroll a bit when you go back to the home page before hitting forward. Safari handles this fine.

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