2015094 - Up / Down arrows will remove the text from the Homepage / Newtab SmartBar instead of moving the keyboard focus at the Start or End of added text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2008977

(Core :: Machine Learning: Frontend, defect, P1)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2026-02-06_18h48_24.mp4

Found in

• Nightly 149.0a1 (2026-02-06)

Affected versions

• Nightly 149.0a1 (2026-02-06)

Affected platforms

• All

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a new tab in Smart Window.
2. Add a Lot of text in the Homepage SmartBar Input field.
3. Hit the UP/Down arrows on the keyboard.

Expected result

• The Keyboard cursors should move at the beginning of the text or the end.

Actual result

• The entire text is removed and readded when using the UP / Down arrows.

Regression range
N/A

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

bug 2008977 shows the suggestions list making it obvious why up/down is going through the list

Comment 2

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Access s2 because of restricted keyboard operability.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field for this bug is set to S3. However, the accessibility severity is higher, .
:Mardak, could you consider increasing the severity?

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Comment 4

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

product says this is working as expected now that suggestion list is shown bug 2008977