diff --git a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/tune-links.mjs b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/tune-links.mjs
index 85ab0535..55546f0b 100644
--- a/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/tune-links.mjs
+++ b/src/trx-client/trx-frontend/trx-frontend-http/frontend/tests/tune-links.mjs
@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ const dial = () => page.evaluate(() => ({
   path: window.location.pathname,
 }));
 
+// Typed, not filled. The app holds back its own refreshes of the frequency
+// field from the first keystroke until Enter, so that a state update arriving
+// mid-edit does not rewrite what is being typed. `fill()` sets the value
+// without a keystroke, leaving the field unguarded: on a slow machine a state
+// update could land between the fill and the Enter and put the old frequency
+// back, and the Enter would then re-apply the frequency the radio was already
+// on. Selecting first arms the guard before a single character changes.
+async function tuneByHand(text) {
+  const field = page.locator("#freq");
+  await field.click();
+  await field.press("ControlOrMeta+a");
+  await field.pressSequentially(text);
+  await field.press("Enter");
+}
+
 try {
   await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1500, height: 950 });
 
@@ -49,8 +64,7 @@ try {
 
   // Tuning by hand rewrites the link. This is the part that makes the address
   // bar shareable at any moment rather than only at load.
-  await page.locator("#freq").fill("7.040M");
-  await page.locator("#freq").press("Enter");
+  await tuneByHand("7.040M");
   await page.waitForTimeout(1500);
   const tuned = await dial();
   assert.equal(tuned.freqHz, TUNED_HZ, `tuning landed on ${tuned.freqHz} Hz`);
@@ -59,8 +73,7 @@ try {
 
   // Tuning is not navigation: a swept dial must not bury the back button.
   const historyLength = await page.evaluate(() => window.history.length);
-  await page.locator("#freq").fill("7.100M");
-  await page.locator("#freq").press("Enter");
+  await tuneByHand("7.100M");
   await page.waitForTimeout(1200);
   assert.equal(await page.evaluate(() => window.history.length), historyLength,
     "tuning pushed a history entry instead of replacing one");