Closed Bug 1706826 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Cookies & Site Data option not the first result when searching for "cookies" in the settings

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Firefox 88
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: erwinm, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open about:preferences to try to clear some cookies.

Type cookie into search bar.

Actual results:

Only visible option is "Standard," under "Tracking Protection." Page Down does not work, and due to standard ui/ux design, scrolling leads to migraines.

Also dragging the mouse across the search bar leads to autoscroll, ignoring the accessibility preference to kill autoscroll.

Expected results:

"Cookies and Site Data" should be reachable w/o the migraine.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

about:preferences#searchResults behaves just like any other page: You can use the scrollbar, trackpad, scroll wheel, arrow keys, and page up/down to scroll the page. If you're trying to use page down and it's not working, then maybe the search field in the page is still focused? Try hitting the tab key first to move the focus to the rest of the page.

If there's a particular bug here then please describe it more clearly, otherwise I'll close this.

Component: Address Bar → Preferences
Flags: needinfo?(erwinm)

You can use the scrollbar, trackpad, scroll wheel, arrow keys, and page up/down to scroll the page

And I get a migraine, because of bug 1658601.

If I search, and select text outside the search box, and press Page Down, nothing happens. Why does selecting text not establish focus? How are users supposed to guess that tab will do that?

Flags: needinfo?(erwinm)

(In reply to MarjaE from comment #3)

Why does selecting text not establish focus? How are users supposed to guess that tab will do that?

Tab and Shift-Tab move focus on all major OSes (macOS, Linux, Windows). On macOS, selection persists independently from focus. On Windows, this is not visible but happens anyway (if you select text in a textfield and then de-focus and re-focus, selection is first hidden and then shown again).

I don't think the macOS focus behaviour can be blamed on Firefox.

As another workaround, you could search for "site data" instead.

The search option ordering here is perhaps not ideal for your usecase, but we can't realistically re-order it just because in this particular case you wanted the cookies & site data option. The broad tracking options are what provides users with the easiest control over how they're tracked. Sure, expert users may want to clear specific things and we offer options for that, but we shouldn't prioritize that more complex UI here. As a result, I'm wontfixing this bug.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Summary: Cookie options hidden in about preferences → Cookies & Site Data option not the first result when searching for "cookies" in the settings
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