When reloading the page, navigation panel state is lost. I believe it would be more expected behavior to remember navigation state and restore it.
This is fixed with https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f1f337bb0c1be7eec8cbf73fe59e15ef80d72545 and will be part of phpMyAdmin 4.3.
This is fixed with https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/f1f337bb0c1be7eec8cbf73fe59e15ef80d72545 and will be part of phpMyAdmin 4.3.