I'm not sure when this broke, but you can see in this plunkr ahref="#" no longer triggers a change

http://plnkr.co/edit/GPpzcBP0Ewc5bH5MZE03?p=preview

You can click the RESET link after making some changes to reset to ahref="#" and nothing happens, previously this did work.

This code would respond to this change;
$urlRouterProvider.when('', '/GOHERE');

This no longer gets triggered when an href="#" is used.