diff --git a/addons/web/controllers/main.py b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
index 0f92d769fa2..da3cc8b8d2a 100644
--- a/addons/web/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web/controllers/main.py
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ class Home(http.Controller):
             'modules': simplejson.dumps(module_boot(db=db)),
             'init': 'var wc = new s.web.WebClient();wc.appendTo($(document.body));'
         }
-        return r
+        return request.make_response(r, {'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'})
 
     @http.route('/login', type='http', auth="user")
     def login(self, db, login, key):
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/chrome.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/chrome.js
index 036f57eee7a..89c44a9b7ed 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/chrome.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/chrome.js
@@ -792,10 +792,17 @@ instance.web.redirect = function(url, wait) {
         instance.client.crashmanager.active = false;
     }
 
-    var wait_server = function() {
-        instance.session.rpc("/web/webclient/version_info", {}).done(function() {
+    var load = function() {
+        var old = "" + window.location;
+        if (old === url) {
+            window.location.reload();
+        } else {
             window.location = url;
-        }).fail(function() {
+        }
+    };
+
+    var wait_server = function() {
+        instance.session.rpc("/web/webclient/version_info", {}).done(load).fail(function() {
             setTimeout(wait_server, 250);
         });
     };
@@ -803,7 +810,7 @@ instance.web.redirect = function(url, wait) {
     if (wait) {
         setTimeout(wait_server, 1000);
     } else {
-        window.location = url;
+        load();
     }
 };
 
@@ -818,7 +825,6 @@ instance.web.Reload = function(parent, action) {
     var l = window.location;
 
     var sobj = $.deparam(l.search.substr(1));
-    sobj.ts = new Date().getTime();
     if (params.url_search) {
         sobj = _.extend(sobj, params.url_search);
     }
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
index 643bca0e798..fb622b056a1 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@
         <tr>
             <td class="oe_leftbar" valign="top">
                 <t t-set="debug" t-value="__debug__ ? '&amp;debug' : ''"/>
-                <a class="oe_logo" t-attf-href="/?ts=#{Date.now()}#{debug}">
+                <a class="oe_logo" t-attf-href="/?#{debug}">
                     <span class="oe_logo_edit">Edit Company data</span>
                     <img t-att-src='widget.session.url("/web/binary/company_logo")'/>
                 </a>