1868064 - When focus is on location bar, tabs icon is hidden; requires multiple back gestures to reappear

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Toolbar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[arv]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Tap location bar to give it focus.
2. Observe that tabs icon (used to access other tabs) disappears.
3. Perform back gesture to get to tabs icon to switch tab.

Actual results:

Tabs icon does not reappear. Instead, keyboard disappears. Must hit back at least one more time to reinstate tabs icon.

In fact, multiple times per day I encounter situations where I must perform the back gesture more than 2 times (4, 5, 6?) to get the tabs icon to reappear. I am not sure what causes this, but it is mildly infuriating.

Expected results:

The tabs icon is of primary importance and ideally should never disappear. I believe this was the behaviour in the past.

If the tabs icon has been deemed a second class citizen (which I would argue should not be the case), it should take no more than one back gesture to reinstate it.

Comment 1

[twhite]

Also changes based on scrolling.

Comment 2

[Margareta Eliza Ciure]

Hi!
I was not able to reproduce this issue on the latest Nightly 123.0a1, with Xiaomi 12T (Android 12).
Do you still reproduce this issue? On what website, what is the device that you use? Also please provide a video with the issue.
Thank you!

Comment 3

[arv]

Attachment: New tab (1), after back gesture (2), after second back gesture (3)

I've uploaded an image with three annotated screenshots from version 121.1.0:

1. New tab with focus on location bar. Note there is no tabs icon.
2. After one back gesture. Keyboard has disappeared, but tabs icon has not reappeared.
3. After two back gestures. Tabs icon has finally reappeared.

I'll repeat: ideally the tabs icon should never disappear as it is always useful and of primary importance. But if, for whatever reason, it is imperative to remove important functionality from the browser, then it should at least be restored easily, not requiring multiple back gestures.

Yes, you can tap on an empty part of the page to restore the tabs icon, but that is not intuitive (to me at least), and in any event should work with a single back gesture as well. And, again, why does the tab icon have to disappear at all...?!!

Comment 4

[Margareta Eliza Ciure]

Thank you for all the details. I will mark this as an enhancement.

Comment 5

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

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