BrowserPlatformLocation cannot handle credentials in the URL in Firefox

Which @angular/* package(s) are the source of the bug?

router, Don’t known / other

Is this a regression?

No

Description

Supposed you have a working Angular app with working routing (a component is generated after <router-outlet>). When opening the same working application with credentials embedded into the URL (basic auth), Angular’s router stops working. No component is generated after <router-outlet>. When removing those embedded credentials from the URL, the applications works again.

You can reproduce this by using an example Angular application like this: https://github.com/gothinkster/angular-realworld-example-app

The example URL would be:

https://test:[e-mail]/ => Renders an empty app body

https://angular.realworld.io/ => Renders successfully

Please provide a link to a minimal reproduction of the bug

https://test:[e-mail]/

Please provide the exception or error you saw

No exception itself - only an empty app body respectively nothing generated after `<router-outlet>`.

Please provide the environment you discovered this bug in

The example application (https://github.com/gothinkster/angular-realworld-example-app) seems to be using Angular v11.2.8. However, I can reproduce this in my own application too which is running on the latest version: v12.2.6.
I'm on Windows 10 with Firefox v92.

Anything else?

No response

[atscott]

@julmot There is no timeline for a fix for this. I mentioned in the previous comment exactly what you can do to make it work in your application. It should not take long to create a fix for your use-case.

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