The "reload the page" banner after an update

What happened

Chrome updates extensions in the background. When it does, the copy running inside your already-open tab is orphaned: it is still on screen, but the extension it belonged to has been replaced.

An orphaned copy can still draw the panel, and then fails the moment it needs anything from the extension itself. The symptoms are odd rather than obvious: a button that does nothing, a database error, a panel that half loads.

Why there is a banner at all

Because those failures used to be reported as bugs. They looked like Flogit breaking, and they were Flogit having been replaced mid-sentence.

Naming the condition turns a confusing error into a one-click fix, and stops it filling the feedback board.

Nothing is lost

Your data is in the browser's own storage, not in the tab. A reload re-reads it. Anything mid-flight, a sync or a batch, resumes from where it stopped.

If it happens often

It should not. Chrome updates an extension at most every few days, and only when there is a new version.

Seeing it repeatedly usually means you have a Vinted tab that has been open for a very long time. Closing and reopening it once a day avoids the whole class of problem, including expired sessions.

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