Comment 25 for bug 1638610

My recollection is that the current version of the spec tries to distinguish user-initiated navigation and, once we start trying to execute that (by firing beforeunload, followed by unload, followed by actually loading a new page), any subsequent manipulation of location should have no effect (unless the user bails out in beforeunload). (Paraphrasing spec language for something roughly like this, obviously)

Boris/Anne, is that recollection at all near the truth? What should we be doing here? And any chance we can re-prio this?