Frontend freezing, not loading, waiting for cache

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Related Problem. We’re also having assets pending intermittently. Same behaviour in Chrome and Safari, while Firefox works correctly.

HTTP requests randomly stuck forever at pending on Chrome and Safari

This is not normal behavior, and hence is not a realistic scenario. Nevertheless, the cause of the original issue may have something to do with how Netlify manages its cache control. The cause of the force-refreshing issue is certainly this. Most sites cache aggressively - Cloudflare, Vercel etc. Eg look at the cache control header on any static resource from Vercel: cache-control: public,max-age=31536000,immutable So when you reload the site, it will serve from local cache. You can reload o…