Looking into fixing the intermittent for bug 1498336, which is suspiciously similar to the issue described one, I discovered there's is a [stray window "resize" event](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/server/actors/reflow.js#483-489,506-514) which is [fired](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/client/inspector/shared/style-change-tracker.js#96) during reload with RDM open. The Rules panel [reacts to that event](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/client/inspector/rules/rules.js#1852) with trying to grab the latest applicable styles (for scenarios where a media query might begin to apply), but being in a state of flux during reload, the node front for the selected element doesn't seem to have a [corresponding DOM node](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/server/actors/styles.js#582,593) (aka `rawNode`); the Rules panel swallows the error and shows an empty panel. The issue in bug 1498336 happens intermittently. The window "resize" event is fired prematurely _sometimes_. This is perhaps an indication as to why the issue described in this bug has been difficult to reproduce.
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Looking into fixing the intermittent for bug 1498336, which is suspiciously similar to the issue described in this one, I discovered there's is a [stray window "resize" event](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/server/actors/reflow.js#483-489,506-514) which is [fired](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/client/inspector/shared/style-change-tracker.js#96) during reload with RDM open. The Rules panel [reacts to that event](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/client/inspector/rules/rules.js#1852) with trying to grab the latest applicable styles (for scenarios where a media query might begin to apply), but being in a state of flux during reload, the node front for the selected element doesn't seem to have a [corresponding DOM node](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/61f224ec08ddc6f9a93ac45c8c3c5f7159be7c2a/devtools/server/actors/styles.js#582,593) (aka `rawNode`); the Rules panel swallows the error and shows an empty panel. The issue in bug 1498336 happens intermittently. The window "resize" event is fired prematurely _sometimes_. This is perhaps an indication as to why the issue described in this bug has been difficult to reproduce.