1844331 - Inconsistent behavior with the "Down Arrow" key when focusing on directories inside the "Location" field

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

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Attachment: Inconsistent behavior with the "Down Arrow" key when focusing on directories inside the "Location" field

[Affected Versions]

• Firefox 115.0.2 (64-bit)

[Affected Platforms]

• Windows 11 x64

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Open any website.
2. Click the "Star" icon inside the URL bar.
3. Press the "Tab" key to the "Location" field.
4. Press the "Down Arrow" key to open and browse the panel.
5. Press the "Tab" key to the "Location" field again.
6. Press the "Down Arrow" key to open and browse the panel.

[Expected result]:

• For Step 4 and 6, the "Down Arrow" key should have the same effect.

[Actual result]:

• From Step 4, only the parent directories below the "Location" field can be focused by the "Down Arrow" key.
• From Step 6, all directories (directories and their subdirectories) below the "Location" field can be focused by the "Down Arrow" key.

[Notes]:

• Press the "Up Arrow" and "Down Arrow" keys around 3 to 5 times to access the subdirectories.

Comment 1

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

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Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0

Hi,
I am able to reproduce this issue in Release 116, Beta 117.0b2 and Nightly 118.0a1 on Windows 10.

Thanks for the report.