The reason for this problem is:
"Non-:visible target elements ignored Target elements that are not :visible according to jQuery will be ignored and their corresponding nav items will never be highlighted."
:visible has different behavour in Firefox and Chrome.
For example following HTML is invisible in Chrome, but visible in Firefox:
<a id="home"></a>Bootstrap commit where :visible check is enabled: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commit/5a38a5775f8a3c58c09df0a0f3afc058c820c238