Incorrect redirect

I was loading a variety of explore urls on a slow connection, and the page would ‘forget’ about the selected taxon and the page would redirect to the explore page for all taxa.

I’ve had this problem a bunch of times over the years on multiple computers. I think it’s linked to having a slower connection.

Website
Firefox

e.g. I’d start loading https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=true&quality_grade=research&taxon_id=178175
but I’d get redirected to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?quality_grade=research

Initially the url bar at the top of the browser shows the correct url, and the page is in early stages of loading. Then suddenly the url changes at the top of the browser, and the page continues to load as if it’s simply the generic explore page.

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I have noticed this happen as well, but always infrequently and I have never been able to reproduce it

The next time this happens, can you please open the browser console and take a screenshot that includes the console?

Now that I think about it, I’ve also had this problem sometimes when loading certain unusual filters with a lot of results (like filtering for all observations by edanko, or all observations of a certain taxon in a certain radius) even on fast internet connections.

In response to your reply, I forced the problem to occur by loading 50 search pages at once in one browser window. The first few times I did this, the problem occurred, but nothing showed up in the console in the ‘parent process only’ view. Then I switched to ‘multiprocess’ view, but the problem stopped happening for the next 5 times I opened up 50 pages at once. Finally the problem recurred and I captured the console:

Initially just loading the pages, no obvious problems yet:

These errors started popping up just as I started noticing the redirect happen: