1640847 - The focus jumps between General and Security sections in Page Info window

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: Page Info window focus issue.mp4

Affected versions:

Beta 77.0b9
Nightly 78.0a1(2020-05-25)

Tested on:

Windows 10
Ubuntu 20.04

Steps:

1. Launch firefox and access youtube.com
2. Open the Page Info window.

Actual result:

The General section is focused then jumps to the Security section.

Expected result:

Security section should be focused from the start.

Regression range:

This is a recent regression. Here is the pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=2027191fe36fd8d65e7deb9fc95f52dbe47ceedb&tochange=d6257d6b60a844e526525fa47c0ef720733a2421

Note: On youtube, if a video is playing, the focus jump is happening after about 3-4 seconds.On other websites e.g facebook.com the issue is also reproducible but the jump between general and security is happening very quickly.

@Tim Nguyen could you take a look over it?

Comment 1

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

I don’t have cycles to debug this, but I guess the await changed the code’s meaning, in some unexpected way. Florian, do you mind looking into it? Thanks!