725670 - [New Tab Page] Find bar won't open on about:newtab, after you've switched to another tab & back

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 1. Open a new tab.
   --> NOTE: Open "Edit" menu. Notice that "Find" is one of the available
       options, and successfully brings up the find bar. (as does Ctrl+F)

 2. Switch to (or open) a different tab

 3. Switch back to the tab from step 1

 4. Try to do "Edit | Find" or Ctrl+F for find bar

EXPECTED RESULTS: Find bar will still open.

ACTUAL RESULTS:   Edit | Find is grayed out, and Ctrl+F does nothing.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Related issue (probably the same root cause): If you visit any normal page & open/focus the findbar, and then start switching through your tabs (with Ctrl+PageUp), then the findbar immediately loses focus as soon as you cross any "about:newtab" tab

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

The same thing happens with the old about:blank page and even with non-blank pages. When the url bar in a tab is focused it gets re-focused when selecting the tab thus the find bar loses focus. The only difference is that currently you can't focus about:newtab's content by clicking it (only by starting a drag or by using the TAB key).

Comment 3

[B.J. Herbison]

Note that while Edit/Find and Ctrl-F don't work, turn off the menu bar and the Find... menu item in Nightly 15.0a1 does work. The find feature does still work (on the limited text on the page).

As for Comment 1: I do not see the loss of focus you described when using Ctrl-PageUp. I just set focus in the find bar text box, used Ctrl-PageUp to a new tab page, and typed to make a successful search. (9 May 2012 version on Ubuntu.)

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] from comment #2)
> The same thing happens with the old about:blank page and even with non-blank
> pages. When the url bar in a tab is focused it gets re-focused when
> selecting the tab thus the find bar loses focus.

Ah -- OK, disregard comment 1 then.

Comment 0 is still a valid bug that's specific to about:newtab, though.

Comment 5

[Dan Jacobson]

Note for anybody looking at the screen with the nine tabs on it.
Let's say you click a tab, but you don't like it.
Now you click BACK like any normal person does many times a day.
But you are either now looking at NOT the window with the nine tabs on it.
Or there is no BACK button enabled in the first place!

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This is now WORKSFORME, at least as far back as
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
and still WORKSFORME in current Nightly:
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
 32.0a1 (2014-05-20)