We have switched Location.reload() behavior to take a new light-weight reload that is aligned with the UX triggered reload at m57.
But, we tentatively disable it at m58 because we have seen some compatibility issues.
For m59+, we do not have a flag to turn down this new behavior any more, and this is hard to revert on TOT and beta branch.
As a backup plan, we will add a experiment-controlled feature to use hard-reload for Location.reload(). This will be disabled by default for a moment, but could be turned on at some point.
This change is intended to be merged to the beta channel of m59.
Comment 1 by toyoshim@chromium.org
, Apr 28 2017