SecurityError: The operation is insecure - window.history.pushState()

Question

I\'m getting this error in Firefox\'s Console: SecurityError: The operation is insecure and the guilty is HTML5 feature: window.history.pushState()

Answer 1

You should try not open the file with a folder-explorer method (i.e. file://), but open that file from http:// (i.e. http://yoursite.com/ from http://localhost/)

Answer 2

We experienced the SecurityError: The operation is insecure when a user disabled their cookies prior to visiting our site, any subsequent XHR requests trying to use the session would obviously fail and cause this error.

Answer 3

I had this problem on ReactJS history push, turned out i was trying to open //link (with double slashes)