2068880 - Refocusing the new tab search bar does not reopen the search suggestions dropdown

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P1)

Description

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

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Notes

• Please see the attached screenshot for more details.
• Reproducible with both Proton and Nova.

Found in

• Nightly 157.0a1;

Affected versions

• Nightly 157.0a1;

Tested platforms

• Windows 11;
• Ubuntu 22;
• macOS 13;

Affected platforms

• Windows 11;
• Ubuntu 22;
• macOS 13;

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Focus the new tab search bar and input any string.
3. Press Escape key to close the search suggestion dropdown or focus the in-page content.
4. Re-focus the new tab search bar.

Expected result

• Upon refocusing the new tab search bar, the search suggestion dropdown should re-open immediately.

Actual result

• After refocusing the new tab search bar, the search suggestion dropdown doesn’t open; an additional action (eg. adding or removing a letter from the query) needs to be made for the dropdown to be visible.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: Bug 2068880 - Skip the persisted search terms lookup outside the address bar. r?jteow!

It dereferences gBrowser, which New Tab's content realm doesn't have, so refocusing the bar threw before autoOpen could requery.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/9c33c4129c82
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e6b728f90386
Skip the persisted search terms lookup outside the address bar. r=jteow

Comment 3

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e6b728f90386

Comment 4

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

Reproduced the initial issue using Nightly 157.0a1 2026-09-03.

Verified as fixed on Firefox 157 beta 2 and latest Nightly 158.0a1, under Win 11 and macOS 15.