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i tried chasing this down (making sense of the [various](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/2052e60418a92b9bbac86c9afc2e82fd70cdccb9/packages/%40ember/-internals/routing/lib/services/router.ts#L130) [special](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/0efdae9456c24339a60947e4155ff471945e6229/packages/%40ember/-internals/routing/lib/system/route.ts#L2582) [cases](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/93b08fe7afb1034785f968f0095721b291df5054/packages/%40ember/-internals/routing/lib/system/router.ts#L896-L898) for transitions originating from the router service) and all i got were some failing tests: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/pull/18579

rebas'd to resolve conflicts! tho now the build is failing for node version reasons: ``` error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "8.* || 10.*...

@alice Oh wow, you're absolutely right. Firefox was respecting a [Mac OS setting](https://stackoverflow.com/a/11713537) and Safari... has its own opinion on the tab key. So yes, the only issue here is...

Hey good news, this is *more* complicated! The same buggy behavior shows up when `refreshModel` is `false` for all QPs, but only when transitioning to *another* route, instead of changing...

@richgt ah sorry, there aren't tests, it's an interactive repro showing the problem when `refreshModel` is `false`: here's a video demonstrating:  - the `application` controller has a query param...