jQuery Mobile Work-Around: refresh cached first page

jqm-reload-firstPage.js

// guarantee fresh data on the first-loaded page (stays cached in DOM)
// see https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/4050
$(document).on('pagebeforechange', function(event, data) {
	var $all_pages = $.mobile.pageContainer.find(':jqmData(role="page")'),
	    $cur_page = $.mobile.activePage,
	    $first_page, // unenhanced if fresh load of URL w/ hash in browser w/o pushSate support
	    first_page_data,
	    toPage_type,
	    root_url,
	    nav_urls;

	// exit early if fix is unnecessary
	if (!$.mobile.ajaxEnabled // no ajax nav, so no problem to fix...
		// ...or a fresh non-ajax page load...
			|| $cur_page === undefined
		// ...or a multi-page document
			|| $all_pages.length > 1 && !$all_pages.filter(':jqmData(external-page="true")').length) {
		return;
	}

	toPage_type = typeof data.toPage;

	// pagebeforechange fires both before and after the request; data.toPage is
	// only a string before. BUT, in IE when using the back button to return to
	// the first page it's only ever a jQuery collection so also run on hash changes.
	if (toPage_type === 'string' || data.options.fromHashChange) {
		$first_page = $.mobile.firstPage;
		first_page_data = $first_page.jqmData('page');
		root_url = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host;
		nav_urls = {
			dest: $.mobile.path.makeUrlAbsolute(toPage_type === 'string'
				? data.toPage
				: data.toPage.jqmData('url'), root_url),
			first: root_url + $first_page.jqmData('url')
		};

		// for when initial pg data-url & return link disagree on trailing "/"...
		$.each(nav_urls, function(key, value) {
			nav_urls[key] = value.charAt(value.length - 1) === '/' ? value.slice(0, -1) : value;
		});

		if ($first_page !== $cur_page
				&& nav_urls.dest === nav_urls.first
				&& !(first_page_data && first_page_data.options.domCache)) {
			// work around Android Browser giving blank or stale page w/ back button use, IE 8 & 9 giving stale page
			if (data.options.fromHashChange) {
				window.location.replace(nav_urls.first);
				return;
			}

			data.options.reloadPage = true;

			$(document).one('pageshow', function(event) {
				var $new_first_page = $(event.target);
				// clean up dup DOM node from any trailing slash disagreement
				$first_page.remove();
				// keep new version of the page around
				$new_first_page.removeAttr('data-' + $.mobile.ns + 'external-page').off('pagehide.remove');
				$.mobile.firstPage = $new_first_page;
			});
		}
	}
});

not working anymore for jQM 1.2.0.

Seems to work for me in jQM 1.2.0 after commenting out lines 38-40. Those lines remove the trailing slash in IE 9.

the best way in my opinion (as long as you don't need to cache any page) is to find the line in 'jquery.mobile-1.2.0.js' that reads:

$.mobile.loadPage.defaults = {....blah};

and

change the 'reloadPage' default to 'true'

Doesn't work on 1.3 neither.