UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open DevTools > Performance tab
2. Reload page

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
New recording automatically starts. IMO that's unexpected and, most of the time, annoying.

Consider my workflow:
1) inspect performance of my animation in the Performance panel
2) tweak the code in IDE
3) reload page
4) ! new recording starts
5) ! click "stop"
6) ! wait for DevTools to process the recording
7) ! clear unwanted recording
8) start a new recording (one I'm actually interested in)
9) run the animation
10) stop the recording
11) go to #1

Steps 4-7, after a few repetitions, get extremely annoying. Especially, that you have to wait for DevTools to unfreeze from 'loading profile…' which takes a second or two.

In the dev environment I'm almost never interested in page load performance since this environment is very much different from the production (source maps, helper debug scripts, no minification, bundling, transpiling). I'm using Performance panel, almost exclusively, to inspect specific parts of application / website after page loads.

There seems to be a simple solution for that problem. There is a 'Reload page' button in the Performance panel interface which, right now, doesn't do anything interesting (just reloads the page). We could repurpose it into a 'Reload & Record' button making this an opt-in feature.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 57.0.2987.133  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.12.3
Flash Version: 

I asked others about this feature on Twitter (22 votes): https://twitter.com/kdzwinel/status/843964719006408705 . 40% are annoyed by this feature.
 

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