Open Bug 1415860 Opened 8 years ago Updated 3 years ago

New Tab page cannot grab focus for Out of Process extensions

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
General
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: kicsy87, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0 Build ID: 20171108221316 Steps to reproduce: A WebExtension providing New Tab page calls window.focus() - for example, to get focus for its own search field instead of the address bar. Actual results: In Out of Process mode, focus remains in the address bar when the user opens a new tab via Ctrl+T or button. Expected results: When OoP is disabled, the page receives focus.
Blocks: webext-oop
status-firefox57: --- → wontfix
Priority: -- → P5
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
Bulk move of bugs per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1483958
status-firefox57: wontfix → ---
Component: Untriaged → General

What is the reason for the wontfix? This breaks usability of important addons such as Tridactyl. Every new tab requires the user to reset the focus by F6. Moreover blocking that method does not increase security against such addons but only reduces comfort.

This was only wontfix-ed for Firefox version 57, the bug is still open though not a high priority, so the best way to move this forward would be for someone to contribute a fix.

Severity: normal → S3
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