1526709 - Addon toolbar popups opened from the overflow menu do not receive focus

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P3)

Description

[bug]

Addons that auto-focus inputs within their popups work fine from the toolbar, but not if the addon has been pinned to the overflow menu.

A good example is the Bitwarden addon. Opening it via mouse or keyboard focuses the "Master Password" input. After pinning it to the overflow menu, opening it doesn't focus the input any longer.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I think Firefox's webextension code can/should opt in to focusing subviews using the focusWhenActive property on the subview. I don't think we want this for non-webextension subviews. WebExt ones are different because they contain iframes with webextension content; none of the builtin ones do, and they generally don't contain focusable items. So moving this bug to the webextension component.

Comment 2

[Gyula Palko[:gpalko]]

Assigning a more appropriate component.

Comment 3

[Falguni Islam]

Hello, I am new to contributing to Bugzilla can you assigned me to this issue so that I can learn to fix these bugs and also suggest to me how can Is start working on this bug to fix it.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Falguni Islam from comment #3)

Hello, I am new to contributing to Bugzilla can you assigned me to this issue so that I can learn to fix these bugs and also suggest to me how can Is start working on this bug to fix it.

I think you're working on bug 1681888 now. I'm not sure if this bug is going to be a good fit for mentored contribution, but hopefully the folks you're working on in that bug can suggest you something appropriate. If not, feel free to needinfo me and I can try to find something.