[SalesForce] e.force:navigateToURL does not remove previous url query parameters

Try force:navigateToURL event (docs).

In your component controller handle click event like this:

var urlEvent = $A.get("e.force:navigateToURL");
urlEvent.setParams({
   "url": "/my-orders?active=closed"
});
urlEvent.fire();

I never found the root solution of the issue, and Salesforce support doesn't seem to have much insight on this issue either.

It seems like the issue is the timing of when the lightning component input is dynamically created in its parent component's lifecycle. This issue only manifests using ltng:require with afterScriptsLoaded, but not when using the init event handler. $A.createComponent is already asynchronous, but if I create wrap it in window.setTimeout, even with no specified delay, the creation works as expected and the problem goes away. So the issue is resolved if I create the component outside of the regular component lifecycle.

I ended writing a helper function to help me do this -

createInitialComponents: function(cmp, callback) { window.setTimeout($A.getCallback(callback)); }

where the callback argument is where I do all my dynamic component creation, e.g. $A.createComponent()