As designed Saving account preferences uses XmlHttpRequest and reloads page

[Steffen]

Affected version

2.0.6 Beta 2

The issue which has been fixed for the signature page (https://xenforo.com/community/threa...or-some-reason-still-reloads-the-page.146990/) exists on other account preferences pages, too.

For example on (but not limited to): https://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

 

[Chris D]

Preferences should reload as you can change your style, language and time zone there which affect the page output. There's the restore dismissed notice preference too which would remain checked and not actually restore the notices without a reload which could be confusing.

Generally the behaviour of most pages is as designed. The behaviour certainly defaults to AJAX and redirect and that is appropriate most of the time. Arguably, the signature one is perfectly fine redirecting too, as certain things may not render until the page is loaded (e.g. if you type in BB code directly into the WYSIWYG editor) but that's probably edge case.