Links Fail with createBrowserRouter in Old Browsers

[L-Daniels]

I am unable to get <Link>s to work when using createBrowserRouter in devices which use a very old browser. Updating the browser is not an option.. The userAgent is Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; x86_64 GNU/Linux) AppleWebKit/601.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/601.1 WPE, so I believe that is similar to Safari 8 from 2014. I have been able to use <BrowserRouter>, <Routes>, and <Route>. When using createBrowserRouter, the <Link>s do not seem to do anything.

The device with the old browser has no access to dev tools or the console. By surfacing some info in the UI, I determined the const location = useLocation() does not update the key property in the old browser, but does in the working modern browsers. Any ideas why this is? Could it be a bug? I would be happy to make an example, but do not know of anywhere I can publicly run such an old browser to share my woes. This is all happening on a proprietary browser embedded in hardware I have on my desk :-(