This is due to the fact CTRL+L now opens the Address Bar panel on Top Sites. Tab is then captured by the panel itself. To move to the next widget you must first close the panel with ESC. Alternatively you can disable Top Sites in the Privacy Settings, then the panel won't open and won't capture Tab. Could you please confirm that if the panel is closed, or if you disable Top Sites, everything works as expected? Now, the problem here is deciding what Tab should do when the panel is open. Usually, when there is a pre-selected result, Tab moves through results. Making it select the first result in the bug case would be coherent with that. But that means to reach the page action buttons one must first close the results panel. Summing up, supposing one wants to reach page action buttons, on Windows one can always use F6 and Tab. Alternatively, today they can CTRL+L and Tab. But if we make Tab coherently move through results, then they have to CTRL+L, ESC to close the panel, then Tab. This is really an accessibility question, and the direction of this bug will depend on the accessibility answer.
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This is due to the fact CTRL+L now opens the Address Bar panel on Top Sites. Tab is then captured by the panel itself. To move to the next widget you must first close the panel with ESC. Alternatively you can disable Top Sites in the Privacy Settings, then the panel won't open and won't capture Tab. Question for the reporter: could you please confirm that if the panel is closed, or if you disable Top Sites, everything works as expected? Now, the problem here is deciding what Tab should do when the panel is open. Usually, when there is a pre-selected result, Tab moves through results. Making it select the first result in the bug case would be coherent with that. But that means to reach the page action buttons one must first close the results panel. Summing up, supposing one wants to reach page action buttons, on Windows one can always use F6 and Tab. Alternatively, today they can CTRL+L and Tab. But if we make Tab coherently move through results, then they have to CTRL+L, ESC to close the panel, then Tab. This is really an accessibility question, and the direction of this bug will depend on the accessibility answer.
This is due to the fact CTRL+L now opens the Address Bar panel on Top Sites. Tab is then captured by the panel itself. To move to the next widget you must first close the panel with ESC. Alternatively you can disable Top Sites in the Privacy Settings, then the panel won't open and won't capture Tab. Question for the reporter: could you please confirm that if the panel is closed, or if you disable Top Sites, everything works as expected? Now, the problem here is deciding what Tab should do when the panel is open without a selection. Usually, when there is a pre-selected result, Tab moves through results. Making it select the first result in the bug case would be coherent with that. But that means to reach the page action buttons one must first close the results panel. Summing up, supposing one wants to reach page action buttons, on Windows one can always use F6 and Tab. Alternatively, today they can CTRL+L and Tab. But if we make Tab coherently move through results, then they have to CTRL+L, ESC to close the panel, then Tab. This is really an accessibility question, and the direction of this bug will depend on the accessibility answer.