2037467 - Lists widget - The completed items does not have focus indicating that they are selected via keyboard controls

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P2)

Description

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Affected versions

• Firefox 150.0.1 ( with New Tab Addon version 152.0.20260504.33143 installed)
• Firefox 152.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 11 x64
• MacOS 26.4.1
• Ubuntu 26.04

Prerequisites

• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.enabled -> true
• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.lists.enabled -> true
• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.maximized -> true
• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.nova.enabled -> true
• Have the large lists widget active

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a new tab and look over the lists widget
2. Add some items and mark them as complete
3. Press tab via keyboard until the completed items are selected

Expected result

• The items in the Completed section are focused when selected

Actual result

• The items in the Completed section have no focus indicating that they are selected

Regression range

• New implementation

Additional notes

• The issue can be seen in the following attachment

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

Since nightly and release are affected, beta will likely be affected too.
For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 2

[Amber Meryman]

S3 - ideally, we'd fix this before a broad rollout

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 4

[Reem Hamoui]

Attachment: Bug 2037467 - Update Lists widget to include moz-checkbox instead of bespoke checkbox logic and design. r=#home-newtab-wattle-reviewers-rotation

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/0766840f0fdc
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9da9fbed7382
Update Lists widget to include moz-checkbox instead of bespoke checkbox logic and design. r=fchasen

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/1686a8c58639
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f5e66a3503c3
Revert "Bug 2037467 - Update Lists widget to include moz-checkbox instead of bespoke checkbox logic and design. r=fchasen" for causing linting failures @Lists.test.jsx.

Comment 7

[agoloman]

Backed out for causing linting failures @Lists.test.jsx.

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/386012d50b4c
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5c744bd6adb2
Update Lists widget to include moz-checkbox instead of bespoke checkbox logic and design. r=fchasen

Comment 9

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5c744bd6adb2

Comment 10

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Verified that this if fixed on Firefox 157.0a1 (2026-09-10). Tests were performed on macOS 27, Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04.