98.0a1 (2022-01-20) (64-bit), Win10

STR

1. Open new Address Book
2. Check where the focus is
3. Try to move focus to search field for searching addresses

Actual

• No visible focus
• It takes as many as 12 Tab keypresses to reach the searchbox.
• No shortcut either (I've filed that separately as bug 1751304).

Expected

• Initial focus after opening AB should be on search box, as the most likely action after opening the main AB is searching for contacts
• It's a convenient central focus position where the AB list or the contacts list are easy to reach.

Seamonkey bug 122176

Depends on D138099

Hi Kian, thank you for picking this up among your first handful of patches! :-))

np

Hi Kian, would you like to do the final touches on this yourself so that we can land it? See my comment on phabricator.

Kian replied here:

I will run the linter and update the revision. Thank you for reminding me.

I think everything is fixed.

Pushed by geoff@darktrojan.net:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/2a24605bc395
When opening the new Address Book tab, search box should helpfully have focus r=darktrojan

(In reply to Kian from comment #7)

I think everything is fixed.

Awesome! Thank you Kian for implementing this helpful change!

Verified: working as expected on 100.0a1 (2022-03-22) (64-bit), Win10.