847030 - Find in page: User has to manually set focus back to search box after panning/scrolling, keyboard still present, keypresses without any result

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Firefox for Android 20130201, Android 4.1.2 (stock), Google Nexus S

Searching for a term on a page and then panning/scrolling the page steals the focus from the Find In Page dialog, but keeps it open together with the virtual keyboard. Tapping on a key does nothing.

Expected behavior:
Either
A) close the virtual keyboard when content gets panned, tap on input box of Find in page shows it again
or
B) keep keyboard open and functional until the user closes the Find in page dialog.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Reproducible; silly. I think this is just a focus issue → moving to General

CC'ing Margaret

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

We fixed a bunch of bugs about the keyboard closing too often, so I think we do want to keep it open while the find bar is open. This means that we should try to keep it focused while panning.

I'm not familiar with what happens when we start panning and if there's a way to keep focus on the find in page bar. If we can't keep it focused, maybe we can find a way to return focus to the find in page bar after panning is over.

Kats, do you have any ideas about what we should do here?

Comment 3

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

I don't really know how focus works on Android. I was trying to figure this out yesterday for Ouya stuff but even after a few hours I couldn't really figure it out. From what I understood I think setting isFocusableInTouchMode() to false on the LayerView object should have the desired effect (in that focus should remain on the find bar) but I wouldn't be at all surprised if that doesn't work. Maybe ask sriram?

Comment 4

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