Open Bug 1873325 Opened 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Set focus in address bar when starting Firefox in private mode

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Private Browsing
Version:
Firefox 121
Platform:
Desktop
Unspecified
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: letraz, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox in private mode.
Without clicking into address bar first, it is not possible to enter an URL. Even while the cursor is blinking already in the address bar.

Actual results:

When you start to type an URL right after start of Firefox nothing happens. As soon as you press ENTER a new window of Firefox in private mode opens.

Expected results:

Right after starting of Firefox in private mode it should be possible to enter an URL without any clicks somewhere beforehand.

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

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar
See Also: → 1225640
See Also: → 945486
See Also: → 1818231

Setting Private Component so that engineering can take a look at this enhancement request. Though I am not able to reproduce the issue on Win11x64 using Firefox 121.0, after opening the private window from hamburger menu / taskbar I am able to type the url or use Ctrl+V to paste link.

Component: Address Bar → Private Browsing
Flags: needinfo?(letraz)
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop
QA Whiteboard: qa-not-actionable

Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:timhuang, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(letraz) → needinfo?(tihuang)
Flags: needinfo?(tihuang)
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