diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/actions/alerts.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/actions/alerts.js
index 42834146bf..48dee2587f 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/actions/alerts.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/actions/alerts.js
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';
 
+import { AxiosError } from 'axios';
+
 const messages = defineMessages({
   unexpectedTitle: { id: 'alert.unexpected.title', defaultMessage: 'Oops!' },
   unexpectedMessage: { id: 'alert.unexpected.message', defaultMessage: 'An unexpected error occurred.' },
@@ -50,6 +52,11 @@ export const showAlertForError = (error, skipNotFound = false) => {
     });
   }
 
+  // An aborted request, e.g. due to reloading the browser window, it not really error
+  if (error.code === AxiosError.ECONNABORTED) {
+    return { type: ALERT_NOOP };
+  }
+
   console.error(error);
 
   return showAlert({
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/api.ts b/app/javascript/mastodon/api.ts
index 24672290c7..25bb25547c 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/api.ts
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/api.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ const authorizationTokenFromInitialState = (): RawAxiosRequestHeaders => {
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/no-default-export
 export default function api(withAuthorization = true) {
   return axios.create({
+    transitional: {
+      clarifyTimeoutError: true,
+    },
     headers: {
       ...csrfHeader,
       ...(withAuthorization ? authorizationTokenFromInitialState() : {}),