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by jmcdiesel 3475 days ago
Thats just it...

There are edge cases where a bug is intermittent... and is masked by something on the client side, especially possible with browser plugins. In fact, plugins were the cause of 2 of these for me... Where some issue on page load was causing a bug, but then JS was changing the source away from what cased the bug, but a refresh wasn't guaranteed to have the same information (this was a fast changing log-viewer, for one of them) ...

So you end up not being able to capture the init state of the page... but the bug wouldnt show up without JS enabled because the error is in the JS...

Not common case... but it seems like fetching from the server is MORE work for no reason when the data is already there...