1407237 - The "Search bar" is not focused after you drag a link into it

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P3)

Description

[Marius Coman [:mcoman], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: search.gif

[Notes]:
- The dropdown suggestion menu is not dismissed by pressing the "ESC" key or when clicking somewhere else in the page.

[Affected versions]:
- Firefox 56 and up

[Affected Platforms]:
- All Windows
- All Mac
- All Linux

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Open the browser and navigate to "about:newtab".
2. Drag a Top Site in the "Search bar" and observe the behavior.

[Expected result]:
- The "Search bar" is focused.

[Actual result]:
- The search suggestions dropdown appears, but the search bar is not focused.

[Additional Notes]:
- The issue is reproducible on the old about:home page.
- The issue is also reproducible on the old about:newtab page.
- The issue is reproducible for any link you drag in the "Search bar"
- Attached a screen recording of the issue:

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Update_affecteds

Comment 2

[Aaron Benson]

I thought we covered this in a previous conversation and said that dragging something into a text field is a strong signal of wanting to do something with it, therefore the search field should focus after something is dragged into it.

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

I believe the confusion was that web pages don't automatically get this, e.g., drag a link into a text box in bugzilla. But Firefox search box in the toolbar does get focus on drag, so we should do that behavior as in comment 2.

Comment 4

[Faraaz Ahmad]

Is anybody working on it? I would like to do so

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

There's various changes happening to the search box right now with hand-off from bug 1508388. And paste events end up moving focus to the address bar in bug 1518197. If we do end up going with search hand-off, we probably will WONTFIX this bug.