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How to find out if site is the first item in history? This doesn't work because of security reasons:

if(window.history.item(0)==window.location.href)
+2  A: 

You cannot.

The users' browser history is private information and cannot be read using Javascript.

SLaks
+3  A: 

For security reasons the History object doesn't allow the non-privileged code to access the URLs of other pages in the session history, but it does allow it to navigate the session history.

From: Mozilla Developer Center: window.history

Daniel Vassallo