1743212 - Address bar resets any uncommitted contents and loses focus when detached/separated from other tabs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Riley Manfredi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. In a window with multiple tabs open, enter some text into the address bar of an open tab. Do not press enter.
2. Separate the active tab from the others.

Actual results:

The contents of the address bar reset to the prior contents of the open tab, such as the URL of the current page, losing the uncommitted contents. Additionally, the URL bar becomes no longer active/selected.

Expected results:

The uncommitted text should remain in the URL bar, like it remains when a window is maximized or minimized with uncommitted text. The URL bar should also remain active/selected, like it remains in that scenario.

Comment 1

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Hi,

I am able to reproduce the issue in release 94, beta 95.0b12 and latest nightly 96.0a1 (2021-11-29) using Windows 10. Not sure if its a bug or this is the intended behavior but I'll set it as new and waiting for the developers opinion about it.

Thanks for your input.

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Hmm, this should have been fixed by bug 1602396 but it still happens.

Comment 4

[Allan Laal]

also affects: firefox 109
also affects: firefox ESR 91

Comment 5

[James Teow [:jteow]]

Attachment: Bug 1743212 - Save the userTypedValue if the tab is moved into a new window - r?adw

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/46efd33c811b
Save the userTypedValue if the tab is moved into a new window - r=adw

Comment 7

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/46efd33c811b

Comment 8

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Reproducible on a 2023-06-06 Nightly build on Windows 10.
Verified as fixed on Nightly 116.0a1(build ID: 20230620094433) on Windows 10, macOS 12, Ubuntu 22.
Address bar keeps the content after the active tab is separated from the others.