#434

frontend/src/components/counts/CountsControls.tsx

@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ const CountsControls = (
   const history = draft.get ('definition') === 'history'
   const update = (key: string, value: string) => setDraft (previous => {
     const next = new URLSearchParams (previous)
-    if (['rows', 'cols'].includes (key) && next.get ('sort') !== '') next.delete ('sort')
     setCountState (next, key, value)
+    if (next.toString () === previous.toString ()) return previous
+    if (['rows', 'cols'].includes (key) && next.get ('sort') !== '') next.delete ('sort')
     if (key !== 'mode') return next
     const resolved = normaliseCountsParams (resource, next, definition)
     const axes = [...readCountState<unknown[]> (resolved, 'rows', []),