inAppBrowser events not being listened

I’m having a hard time trying to implement the ngCordova In App Browser, as I followed the instructions to implement ngCordova in my project and also, I managed to add $cordovaInAppBrowser in my project with no problem at all. The browser is opening and is loading the webpage like it should.

The hard time comes when I try to catch events from that browser in the application controller, none of the four events seems to be catched by the $on statement.

Here’s my code:

www/js/app.js

angular.module('starter', ['ionic', 'starter.controllers',
                           'starter.services', 'ngCordova'])

// ...

.config(function($cordovaInAppBrowserProvider) {

  var options = {
      location: 'no',
      clearcache: 'no',
      toolbar: 'no'
  };

  $cordovaInAppBrowserProvider.setDefaultOptions(options);
});

www/templates/tab-dash.html

<ion-view view-title="Dashboard">
  <ion-content class="padding">
    <button type="button" name="button" ng-click="openLink()">Open</button>
  </ion-content>
</ion-view>

www/js/controllers.js

angular.module('starter.controllers', [])

.controller('DashCtrl', function($scope, $rootScope, $cordovaInAppBrowser) {

  $scope.openLink = function() {

    $cordovaInAppBrowser.open('http://www.google.co.cr', '_blank');
  };

  $rootScope.$on('$cordovaInAppBrowser:loadstart', function(e, event){

    console.log('start');
  });

  $rootScope.$on('$cordovaInAppBrowser:loadstop', function(e, event){

    console.log('stop');
  });

  $rootScope.$on('$cordovaInAppBrowser:loaderror', function(e, event){

    console.log('error');
  });

  $rootScope.$on('$cordovaInAppBrowser:exit', function(e, event){

    console.log('exit');
  });
});

Even if I define the listener for every event, it doesn’t seem to work. By the way, I’m using Ionic 2.1.8 with Angular 1.

Any help is appreciated, thank you!