1364390 - autofocus attribute has no effect in browser action popup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1324255

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect, P2)

Description

[sebastian.noack]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Create and install a WebExtension that uses "browser_action.popup", and has an element like this in the  popup page:

<input type="text" autofocus>

This is the extension I had the problem with, but it uses a workaround now:
https://github.com/snoack/mypass/tree/master/extension


Actual results:

When the browser action button is clicked, the popup shows up, but the element is not automatically focused. In the extension referred to above, the element is inside an initially hidden container, which is made visible after some asynchronous calls completed, in case this is relevant. As a workaround, calling focus() on that element from JavaScript does the trick.


Expected results:

The element should be focused when the browser action popup shows up (also if the element isn't visible initially). For reference, this is the behavior on Chrome.

Comment 1

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

The element likely does have focus, but the browser certainly does not.  This is a dup of bug 1365222, but since this is triaged I'm not sure which bug to dup to which.  No browser based popup gets real focus when opened (both Share and Pocket illustrate the same behavior).  So is that intentional, a regression or an oversight?  In any case, it's not actually a webextension bug so much as a panel bug.

Comment 2

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

found another, duping to that.