JSF 2.3 on open liberty. Immediate javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException - jsf

I am experimenting with Open Liberty and wanted to try out JSF-2.3 support. I must be doing something silly because when trying implicit navigation I immediately get the exception:
javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: View "/view/index.xhtml" could not be restored.
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.RestoreViewExecutor.execute(RestoreViewExecutor.java:181)
I can render an initial Facelets-page using the following server.xml features:
<featureManager>
<feature>servlet-4.0</feature>
<feature>jsf-2.3</feature>
<feature>el-3.0</feature>
<feature>cdi-2.0</feature>
<feature>jsp-2.3</feature>
</featureManager>
My page is really simple and looks like this:
<h:body>
<h:outputText value="It works!"/>
<br/>
<h:form>
<h:commandLink value="NAvigate" action="view/page2" />
<h:commandButton value="NAvigate 2" action="view/page2" />
</h:form>
</h:body>
I have a corresponding page2.xhtml.
When clicking on either the commandLink or commandButton I get the exception:
javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: View "/view/index.xhtml" could not be restored.
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.RestoreViewExecutor.execute(RestoreViewExecutor.java:181)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:195)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:142)
Have I mis-configured something in Open Liberty or are my JSF-mojo just lacking severely?

Ugh.. after testing in another browser (Safari) it worked. Hard-resetting Chrome site storage then fixed the original problem.
This problem must have surfaced somewhere in between automatic restarts.

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I'm using JSF 2.0 and I have a problem with navigation after both commandLink and commandButton. I use following code:
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Example
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HTML Output
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h:commandLink
The commandLink tag renders an HTML anchor tag that behaves like a
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internationalization (I18N).
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