diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a068572..74196ae 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2281,6 +2281,8 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
         - Endpoint URL input + "Save" button. "Save" asks the URL for `/stats`
           and saves the URL only if that request succeeds. The request carries
           no user data and is made whether or not "Use Blockscout" is ticked.
+    - If the network changes before either "Save" stores its URL, the URL is not
+      saved and a flash message says so
     - Etherscan:
         - "Check recipients on Etherscan" checkbox, unticked until the user
           ticks it
diff --git a/src/popup/views/settings.js b/src/popup/views/settings.js
index 40da526..07d2307 100644
--- a/src/popup/views/settings.js
+++ b/src/popup/views/settings.js
@@ -319,6 +319,28 @@ function showNewSettings() {
     updateDebugBanner(state.currentView);
 }
 
+// Saves `url` as `field` ("rpcUrl" or "blockscoutUrl") of the network
+// `networkId`, the one active when the user tapped "Save". The URL is set in
+// `state` inside the save, holding the lock. So the page cannot follow a switch
+// saved elsewhere (followStoredSettings() in src/popup/index.js) between
+// setting the URL and writing it. If the active network is no longer
+// `networkId`, on this page or in the stored record, nothing is saved. The
+// flash message then says that the network changed.
+async function saveEndpoint(field, url, networkId) {
+    let refused = false;
+    await saveState((stored) => {
+        refused =
+            state.networkId !== networkId || stored.networkId !== networkId;
+        if (refused) return false;
+        state[field] = url;
+    });
+    if (refused) {
+        showFlash("The URL was not saved because the network changed.");
+    } else {
+        showFlash("Saved.");
+    }
+}
+
 function init(_ctx) {
     ctx = _ctx;
     deleteWallet.init(ctx);
@@ -330,6 +352,8 @@ function init(_ctx) {
             showFlash("Please enter an RPC URL.");
             return;
         }
+        // The URL is for the network active when "Save" is tapped.
+        const net = currentNetwork();
         showFlash("Testing endpoint...");
         try {
             const resp = await debugFetch(url, {
@@ -348,7 +372,6 @@ function init(_ctx) {
                 showFlash("Endpoint returned an error.");
                 return;
             }
-            const net = currentNetwork();
             if (json.result !== net.chainId) {
                 showFlash("Wrong network: expected " + net.name + ".");
                 return;
@@ -364,9 +387,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
             showFlash("Could not reach endpoint.");
             return;
         }
-        state.rpcUrl = url;
-        await saveState();
-        showFlash("Saved.");
+        await saveEndpoint("rpcUrl", url, net.id);
     });
 
     $("btn-save-blockscout").addEventListener("click", async () => {
@@ -375,6 +396,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
             showFlash("Please enter a Blockscout API URL.");
             return;
         }
+        const networkId = state.networkId;
         showFlash("Testing endpoint...");
         try {
             const resp = await debugFetch(url + "/stats");
@@ -389,9 +411,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
             showFlash("Could not reach endpoint.");
             return;
         }
-        state.blockscoutUrl = url;
-        await saveState();
-        showFlash("Saved.");
+        await saveEndpoint("blockscoutUrl", url, networkId);
     });
 
     // Each change is made inside the save, holding the lock. So
diff --git a/tests/popupFollowsNetworkSwitch.test.js b/tests/popupFollowsNetworkSwitch.test.js
index 9cc2345..8baea41 100644
--- a/tests/popupFollowsNetworkSwitch.test.js
+++ b/tests/popupFollowsNetworkSwitch.test.js
@@ -253,6 +253,72 @@ test("a switch back in Settings after a follow whose write failed is stored", as
     expect(told.at(-1).chainId).toBe(NETWORKS.mainnet.chainId);
 });
 
+// The user saves an endpoint URL in Settings on Ethereum Mainnet. Before the
+// URL is stored, the background saves a switch to Sepolia. Another write holds
+// the lock, so the popup's follow of that switch and the URL's save both wait
+// for the lock. Either may take it first. The URL is stored for neither
+// network. The flash message says that the network changed.
+test.each([
+    { button: "btn-save-rpc", field: "settings-rpc", first: "follow" },
+    { button: "btn-save-rpc", field: "settings-rpc", first: "save" },
+    {
+        button: "btn-save-blockscout",
+        field: "settings-blockscout",
+        first: "follow",
+    },
+    {
+        button: "btn-save-blockscout",
+        field: "settings-blockscout",
+        first: "save",
+    },
+])(
+    "$button saves nothing when the network changes before the URL is stored ($first first)",
+    async ({ button, field, first }) => {
+        const page = await bootOnAddress();
+        await page.click("btn-settings");
+        // This answer passes both endpoint checks. The RPC check reads
+        // Ethereum Mainnet's chain id from it. The Blockscout check reads `ok`.
+        globalThis.fetch.mockResolvedValue({
+            ok: true,
+            json: async () => ({ result: NETWORKS.mainnet.chainId }),
+        });
+        const url = "https://own-node.example.invalid";
+
+        let releaseLock;
+        const lockHeld = navigator.locks.request(
+            "autistmask",
+            () =>
+                new Promise((resolve) => {
+                    releaseLock = resolve;
+                }),
+        );
+        // The click handler runs until its save waits for the lock.
+        const tapSave = async () => {
+            page.node(field).value = url;
+            const saving = page.node(button).listeners.click.map((fn) => fn());
+            await page.settle();
+            return saving;
+        };
+        let saving;
+        if (first === "save") saving = await tapSave();
+        await backgroundSwitch(page, "sepolia");
+        if (first === "follow") saving = await tapSave();
+        releaseLock();
+        await lockHeld;
+        await Promise.all(saving);
+        await page.settle();
+
+        const { state } = require("../src/shared/state");
+        expect(state.networkId).toBe("sepolia");
+        expect(JSON.stringify(page.storage.read("autistmask"))).not.toContain(
+            url,
+        );
+        expect(page.text("flash-msg")).toBe(
+            "The URL was not saved because the network changed.",
+        );
+    },
+);
+
 // Such as one a newer build wrote, which this build cannot read. Nothing reads
 // or writes the stored record for it: the popup's next save finds it, as
 // before.