1844376 - Pressing the "Down Arrow" key in the "location" field causes unpredictable jumps.

Status: NEW

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

Description

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Attachment: Pressing the "Down Arrow" key in the "location" field causes unpredictable jumps.

[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 6, pressing the "Down Arrow" key should move the blue highlight to the next folder in a consistent and predictable manner.

[Actual result]:

• For Step 6, pressing the "down arrow" key causes the blue highlighting to jump in unexpected ways. It may move up one folder, down one folder, or jump to a folder at a different level within the directory structure.

[Notes]:

• Pressing the "Up Arrow" key will also lead to unintended jumps within the directory structure.

Comment 1

[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 as well.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

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Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

This is indeed not great from an access and predictability point of view.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

Checking the video again, what happens is that when the Recent Folder is changed, we update the selection in the Folder Picker below, and then it can surely jump around because we look for that folder and select it, showing where it is.
We could probably close previous roots when the selection changes, but apart from that I'm not sure how else we'd handle the cohexistence of the 2 different picking UIs.

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field for this bug is set to S4. However, the accessibility severity is higher, .
:mak, could you consider increasing the severity?

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