The packaged renderer is index.html over file:// with path routing, so
after in-app navigation the document URL names a path with no file behind
it. A main-process reload (macOS View > Reload, DevTools) failed with
ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND and stranded the window on Chromium's error page; a
renderer-initiated reload (the settings unsaved-changes guard's confirmed
location.reload()) was cancelled by the will-navigate trust check and
silently did nothing.
Both legs now re-load the packaged index with the route in a restoreRoute
query parameter, which main.ts restores with history.replaceState before
Angular bootstraps. The did-fail-load recovery is deferred to the error
page's dom-ready: a load issued from inside the failure event yields a
document that never receives animation frames and never paints.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
