1683378 - Keyboard shortcuts don't work if browser window is tiled and button is pushed to overflow menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1416414

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[jmlagnpm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Place item in toolbar
• Reduce the width of the Firefox window by dragging it until the toolbar button is in the overflow menu
• Press keyboard shortcut

Actual results:

The shortcut action is not performed.

If the icon is placed directly into the overflow menu, keyboard shortcuts work as expected.

Tested with Bitwarden, Multi-Account Containers, and a few others, so it's not likely that it's add-on specific.

Expected results:

The shortcut action should be performed.

Comment 1

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

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Firefox's own webextension framework code would need to show the overflow panel before attempting to activate the browser action of the associated extension.

Comment 3

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

to investigate

Comment 4

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I’ve managed to reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly (86.0a1/20201221155804), Beta (85.0b4/20201220193140) and Release (84.0/20201211215739) under Windows 10 Pro x64 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Tested with Bitwarden and while the window is narrowed down to the size in which the add-on’s toolbar icon is in the overflow menu, the browser action does not work via shortcut.