Keyboard focus does not return to URL bar after focusing search icons
Categories
(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: kylerferriter, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: blocked-ux)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Focus URL bar either by click or with Ctrl+L.
- Type or paste "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/" into the URL bar.
- Push down arrow until an icon in the "This time, search with:" bar is highlighted.
- Click back into the URL bar, placing the cursor somewhere not at the beginning of the entered URL. Or focus and highlight whole URL text with Ctrl+L.
- Push the left arrow key, intending to move the cursor left through the URL text.
Actual results:
Cursor location does not move. Focus moves left or wraps around through icons along "This time, search with:" bar, instead of through the text in the URL bar.
Expected results:
Since the URL text was focused, the cursor should move through the text when using the arrow keys.
Comment 1•5 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
Comment 2•5 years ago
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One-off buttons are taking priority over the input field... I think we should stop supporting navigating things with buttons that can be used to move the caret, UP/DOWN still work for any result, included one-off buttons. The downside is that up/down is less obvious for the user than left/right, because these buttons are laid down horizontally.
This is a non critical problem anyway, because the user can "easily" escape the keys trap exiting one-off buttons selection.
@Verdi: could we evaluate supporting only up/down for navigating through results, even if it's a list of horizontal elements? I don't think that technically we can distinguish whether the user wants to move the caret or change button.
Comment 3•5 years ago
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duping to bug 1632318 just because it has a better title
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