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I am noticing a new feature on websites, that whenever I open developer tools on a loaded webpage, the webpage also starts reloading. I am listing down the webpages, where I saw this behaviour

  1. https://medium.com/
  2. https://blog.logrocket.com/writing-readable-code-with-typescript-enums-a84864f340e9/
  3. https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/
  4. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/#naming--uppercase
  5. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/when-to-capitalize-your-javascript-constants-4fabc0a4a4c4/
  6. office365 outlook mail

List can be elongated,

1. I thought it may be due to the settings on networks panel, which is a checkbox to disable cache but I tried toggling it, still page would reload.
2. I also tried resetting chrome developer tools settings and refreshing the browser, but still getting same behaviour



Anyone has any idea about possible cause, or is there something new trend which started in web industry?

Akshay Vijay Jain
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    Your question might be a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31165927/ie-reloads-page-when-opening-f12-developer-tools this behaviour might be browser dependent – canbax May 08 '20 at 09:39
  • Thank you for the link, are you getting this behaviour? – Akshay Vijay Jain May 08 '20 at 09:42
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    I am definitely sure it is not a new trend or feature of browsers. I have many browsers installed and they are all latest versions. I never experienced such thing. But seems like the link @canbax shared is the answer because it is kind of similar situation as yours –  May 08 '20 at 09:43

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