$location replace not removing entries from browser history

Question

Any idea why neither:

$location.url(redirectURL,true);

~ OR ~

$location.path(redirectURL).replace(true);

Are not replacing navigation history items? Or did I not understand what replace is supposed to do?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Call replace first, as:

$location.replace();
$location.path("somewhere");

I think this works too:

$location.replace().path("somewhere");