1365222 - focus panels when opened

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1324255

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jonathan Kingston [:jkt] he/him]

Using the page visibility API or any other means I couldn't auto focus an item in my browser action without the user focusing the action itself.

document.addEventListener("focus", () => {
  // Initial page focus received can now .focus() element desired
});

Was expecting the following to work:

document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", () => {
  importantEl.focus();
}, false);


This means users who use keyboards have to do the following:

1. Trigger command shortcut
2. Tab
3. Hit other shortcuts the extension has setup in page listeners


2. seems like a bug to me, search extensions for example won't be intuitive.

I'm not sure what Chrome does here for commands?

Comment 1

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

pageAction and browserAction panels are not focused when they are opened, in fact none of our panels have focus (e.g. pocket) without the user progressing focus somehow (tab, click).  We'll need to make a decision on whether page/browserAction should receive focus on opening.  That sounds more straightforward than it is (I attempted to move focus into browser.document with focusmanager, it didn't budge).