diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index a702cd19b5b..694db7bf4e3 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -2752,12 +2752,16 @@ openerp.web.form.One2ManyList = openerp.web.ListView.List.extend({
                     self.cancel_pending_edition();
                 });
 
-            // Overload execute_action on the edition form to perform a simple
-            // reload_record after the action is done, rather than fully
-            // reload the parent view (or something)
-            var _execute_action = self.edition_form.do_execute_action;
+            // Replace form's do_execute_action by a call to listview's:
+            // because the form view is actually destroyed at one point, the
+            // RPC request to load&execute the action may get dropped on the
+            // floor in some cases (core.js:1173) leading to the flow not
+            // terminating for complex cases (a button of type action, which
+            // needs 2 or 3 RPC roundtrip to execute the action fully).
+            // => because do_execute_action really is on View, use the
+            // listview's
             self.edition_form.do_execute_action = function (action, dataset, record_id, _callback) {
-                return _execute_action.call(this, action, dataset, record_id, function () {
+                return self.view.do_execute_action(action, dataset, record_id, function () {
                     self.view.reload_record(
                         self.view.records.get(record_id));
                 });
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
index ac7163fa2a9..d5c777bf5a2 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
@@ -1166,7 +1166,11 @@ session.web.View = session.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends session.web.View# */{
             args.push(context);
             return dataset.call_button(action_data.name, args, handler);
         } else if (action_data.type=="action") {
-            return this.rpc('/web/action/load', { action_id: parseInt(action_data.name, 10), context: context, do_not_eval: true}, handler);
+            return this.rpc('/web/action/load', {
+                action_id: parseInt(action_data.name, 10),
+                context: context,
+                do_not_eval: true
+            }).then(handler);
         } else  {
             return dataset.exec_workflow(record_id, action_data.name, handler);
         }