1593211 - [Mac] Tab navigation focus does not work for checkboxes

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Vasilica Tamas, QA [:vtamas]]

Attachment: tab navigation.mov

[Affected versions]:
Firefox 72.0a1 (2019-10-31)
Firefox 71.0b5
Firefox 70.0.1

[Affected platforms]:
MAC OS X 10.14.6

[Steps to reproduce]:
1.Launch Firefox and login using a Firefox Account.
2.Navigate to about:preferences#general
3.Check/uncheck one of the available checkboxes.

[Expected Results]:
Tab navigation focus resets where the cursor is.

[Actual Results]:
Clicking selection boxes does not reset the tab navigation focus.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:dao, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia), offline until 10th of Feb]

Works for me on Ubuntu 18.04, with Nightly and Developer Edition.

Comment 3

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

I think this is the expected behavior for platform convention. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756028
Edgar, care to test if we behaves the same as Safari?

Comment 4

[Edgar Chen [:edgar] (PTO until 02/09)]

Safari doesn't fire focus/blur events when someone uses mouse to click a checkbox, expected behavior as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756028.
But the tab navigation starts from where the clicked checkbox is.

Script: https://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=7465
Safari: Version 12.1 (14607.1.40.1.4)
OS keyboard setting: All controls [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204434#fullkeyboard