diff --git a/addons/web/controllers/main.py b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
index 14785e91896..1730ff576f0 100644
--- a/addons/web/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
@@ -129,14 +129,11 @@ def db_monodb(req):
return db_redirect(req, True)[0]
def redirect_with_hash(req, url, code=303):
- if req.httprequest.user_agent.browser == 'msie':
- try:
- version = float(req.httprequest.user_agent.version)
- if version < 10:
- return "" % url
- except Exception:
- pass
- return werkzeug.utils.redirect(url, code)
+ # Most IE and Safari versions decided not to preserve location.hash upon
+ # redirect. And even if IE10 pretends to support it, it still fails
+ # inexplicably in case of multiple redirects (and we do have some).
+ # See extensive test page at http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpredirects/
+ return "" % url
def module_topological_sort(modules):
""" Return a list of module names sorted so that their dependencies of the