1875334 - history.replaceState does not update address bar URL after manually modifying the URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1425240

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[rheng16]

Attachment: SampleRepro.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load a page that calls replaceState
2. Manually edit the URL
3. Trigger the replaceState call

You can repro using this project:
https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/firefox-replace-state-bug-pdw523

1. Load the page on http://localhost:3000
2. Click the button and see that the address bar updates to http://localhost:3000/?test0
3. Modify the URL to http://localhost:3000/?modified
4. Click the button again

Note, you will need to download an run it locally. The codemirror simulated browser has the correct functioning behavior.

Actual results:

The URL in the address bar did not update

Expected results:

The replace state should have updated the URL in the address bar.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.