1797708 - Tab Navigation Does not Work after coming back from any other site

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[meg.Fitzimmons.test]

Attachment: FirefoxBackButtonIssue.mp4

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any page like oracle.com
2. Try navigation using tab on keyboard
3. Tab navigation will work across page
4. Type google.com in address bar
5. Try tab navigation in google home page, it works
6. Using tab only click on browser back button, you will be redirected to previous page i.e. oracle.com
7. Try navigation using tab again, the navigation will get stuck on getting started on bookmarks bar and wont go to the entire page

Actual results:

The tab navigation got stuck on "getting started" on browser bookmark bar and wont go to the entore page after navigation back from any other site

Expected results:

The navigation should have worked properly and user should be able to navigate across page using tab key.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Hi,

I am able to reproduce this in release 106.0.2 and beta 107.0b6 but I cannot reproduce it in the latest Nightly 108.0a1 (2022-10-28). This means that the bug might already be fixed. In order to confirm this, could you please retest this using the latest Nightly build (https://nightly.mozilla.org/) and report back the results? When doing this, please use a new clean Firefox profile (https://goo.gl/AWo6h8) to eliminate the potential causes.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 3

[meg.Fitzimmons.test]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.
The nightly build page suggested above states below:
"Nightly is an unstable testing and development platform. By default, Nightly sends data to Mozilla — and sometimes our partners — to help us handle problems and try ideas."

Could you please help me with any official release version with this fix or any expected date in which this fix will be available in official release.

Thanks,

Comment 4

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Hello,

Sure thing, the fix will be included in the official release version 108, which will be released on 2022-12-13. Indeed, Nightly is an unstable testing and development platform (also the bug fixes are made there), but it is an official Firefox build and it can be used by anyone without any issues.

Thanks.

Comment 5

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

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Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Alin Ilea from comment #2)

I am able to reproduce this in release 106.0.2 and beta 107.0b6 but I cannot reproduce it in the latest Nightly 108.0a1 (2022-10-28).

Are you sure? I seem to be able to reproduce in Nightly.

Comment 7

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: 2022-11-15_14h47_27.mp4

I attached here a screen recording of the behavior that I encounter in Nightly. On my end, the navigation is working properly and I am able to navigate across oracle page using the tab key on step 7. Doing the same steps, I am still able to reproduce the issue in Beta 107.0b9, where I get stuck on the "getting started" bookmark.

Comment 8

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

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

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