2027110 - "Try Again" button is not focused on new connection failure page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2021447

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Ator [:ator]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 12; Mobile; rv:148.0) Gecko/148.0 Firefox/148.0

Steps to reproduce:

Load a website like https://invalid.com and wait for "Server Not Found".

Hit Enter.

Actual results:

Nothing happens because "Try Again" is not focused and there is no toplevel keyboard event handler that recognises this symbol.

Expected results:

From Firefox 148 to as far back as I can remember, you could hit Enter on any error page to instantly activate the highlighted action button. This is also a common user experience paradigm built into many UI frameworks!

Comment 1

[Ator [:ator]]

Note: I think the correct approach is to habe a toplevel keyboard event handler in the page that activates the blue-highlighted action button (or default action), if any, when Enter is pressed.

If you instead had "Try Again" (for example) focused automatically, then hitting Tab for the first time would move the focus into the browser chrome, rather than the first tabbable element like "Learn more…", due to the action button being the last tabbable element on the page.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

Comment 3

[Ator [:ator]]

This is incorrect! I wrote the bug report on my phone, but it's for Firefox desktop.

Comment 4

[Ator [:ator]]

How do I get this retriaged?! It feels like I've sent this into the void!