diff --git a/src/main.tsx b/src/main.tsx
index bef5202..66ddea7 100644
--- a/src/main.tsx
+++ b/src/main.tsx
@@ -3,6 +3,49 @@ import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
 import './index.css'
 import App from './App.tsx'
 
+// A tab restored from the browser back/forward cache can contain an old React
+// tree and old hashed assets even though the HTML shell is configured to
+// revalidate. Compare the active hashed assets with the latest shell and only
+// reload when a deployment actually changed, preserving state otherwise.
+function hashedAssetPaths(root: Document) {
+  return [...root.querySelectorAll('script[src], link[href]')]
+    .map((element) => element.getAttribute('src') || element.getAttribute('href'))
+    .filter((asset): asset is string => Boolean(asset && asset.includes('/assets/')))
+    .map((asset) => new URL(asset, window.location.href).pathname)
+    .sort()
+}
+
+async function refreshPersistedPageIfStale(event: PageTransitionEvent) {
+  if (!event.persisted) return
+
+  const activeAssets = hashedAssetPaths(document)
+  if (!activeAssets.length) return
+
+  try {
+    const checkUrl = new URL(window.location.href)
+    checkUrl.searchParams.set('__bfcache_check', String(Date.now()))
+    checkUrl.hash = ''
+    const response = await fetch(checkUrl, {
+      cache: 'no-store',
+      headers: { Accept: 'text/html' },
+    })
+    if (!response.ok) return
+
+    const latestHtml = await response.text()
+    const latestDocument = new DOMParser().parseFromString(latestHtml, 'text/html')
+    const latestAssets = hashedAssetPaths(latestDocument)
+    if (latestAssets.length && JSON.stringify(activeAssets) !== JSON.stringify(latestAssets)) {
+      window.location.reload()
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // Keep the restored page usable when the network is unavailable.
+  }
+}
+
+window.addEventListener('pageshow', (event) => {
+  void refreshPersistedPageIfStale(event)
+})
+
 createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
   <StrictMode>
     <App />