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Step one to making navigation and traversal saner: Just flat out prevent 'unload' from ever firing twice in a browsing context. This will merge in the following WHATWG patch: https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/412a5dd467fa9fb9d51bfcffe7f01dd2576017b1
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