 <p>No, you cannot change the current query string without reloading. You could use the frgament portion of the url though (<code>#</code>). Setting the fragment portion might allow you to add some entries to the browser history without reloading.</p> <p>For example if your current url is <code>http://example.com/foo</code> you could change it to <code>http://example.com/foo#bar=baz</code> without reloading the current page.</p>