yes there is!
find the element that is being reloaded and right click,
choose inspect from context menu,
then right click the html of the element (in the bottom firebugish pane),
in the context menu there are options to:
- break on subtree modifications
- break on attributes modifications
- break on node removal
Article on awesome new dev features in chrome:
http://elijahmanor.com/7-chrome-tips-developers-designers-may-not-know/