Reload the page to clear the state

[karenroldan]

Related to #70674

Proposed Changes

• Add a reload in the login page before navigating to the URL to refresh the state. See Flaky E2E: Jest failed to execute suite #70674 (comment) for more context.

With the addition of reload in the login page, the execution time wasn't significantly impacted. The average execution time remains similar to the average time I observed without the reload.

Testing Instructions

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[matticbot]

This PR does not affect the size of JS and CSS bundles shipped to the user's browser.

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[worldomonation]

@karenroldan Ah shoot, I was experimenting with this as well.

I think we should try merging yours in first, and then reverting the changes @dpasque made in #75436 to re-expose instances of this failure. What do you think?

[worldomonation]

question:non-blocking - my interpretation of microsoft/playwright#18137 (comment) is that the page reload should come after the login process, but before the navigation to the target URL.

[karenroldan]

Sorry for the late response! I just saw this comment today. After syncing with @worldomonation, we've decided to close this ticket and carry on our efforts to investigate further and find the root cause of the initial issue. We'll park this change for now! 👍🏻