1378024 - New tab does not autofocus on the url bar (developer edition)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[imyxhuang]

Attachment: newtabnoautofocus.gif

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170629075044

Steps to reproduce:

Download and unzip the Linux tarball from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Run the Firefox executable inside that folder. Open a new tab.


Actual results:

New tabs do not autofocus on the url bar, the search bar, or anything. Animated .gif attached.


Expected results:

Ctrl+t or pressing the new tab button should create a new tab and autofocus the cursor on the url bar/awesome bar.

Comment 1

[imyxhuang]

Okay, I can't reproduce this on another computer or even another profile on the same computer. Guess my profile is just corrupted.
Now to copy all of my stuff onto a new profile...

Comment 2

[imyxhuang]

Hmm, this is odd. I gave up on copying to a new profile and tried safe mode instead. Could not reproduce. Autofocus works fine.
I then tried removing one of my extensions while not in safe mode. It prompted me to restart Firefox, and I did so. Again, could not reproduce.
But when I closed Firefox and started it again with the terminal, the bug is still there.
So it turns out that when Firefox prompts me for a restart from either installing, removing, disabling, enabling etc an extension, it starts fine without the bug. But a "hard" restart of Firefox through closing and opening it will cause the url bar to still not autofocus.

Comment 3

[imyxhuang]

Never mind. Looks like it works fine with only moz extensions enabled, even after closing and opening Firefox.
Invalid, I hope.