The search box is not autofocused in FF when popup is opened

[maximbaz]

General information

• Operating system + version: ArchLinux
• Browser + version: FF 55.0.3
• If installed an official release, put a release version:
• If built from sources, put a commit id ($ git describe --always): c3a6279
• Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 1.0.15

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Exact steps to reproduce the problem

1. Install the extension on Firefox
2. Hit the hotkey Alt+Shift+L

What should happen?

The search input box should autofocus, ready to receive search term, just like on Chrome.

What happened instead?

Need to press Tab, Tab to get to the search box.

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May be somewhat related to #40.

[turboMaCk]

I think we can use this lifecycle hook on the very top component to make a check if the input is selected. In case it's not we can use standard DOM API to do select via script. What do you think?

[maximbaz]

Both ideas worth a try, I'd also start with the oncreate hook :)

If you are considering to play with this, maybe see if you can combine it together with #40? If popup opens and there is at least one result, the focus should be on the first result, otherwise on the search box.

[turboMaCk]

Also, I agree that this #40 (comment) feature would be nice. Anyway, I would suggest to do it one by one. First, start with solving autofocus issue and then adding detection about what should be focused once popup is opened.

[maximbaz]

I'm fine with doing it one by one 👍

[turboMaCk]

I'll start working on it after dinner then. I think it won't take much time.

[maximbaz]

Awesome job with this bug 👍
Wanna tackle #40 (comment) next? There's no rush, whenever you have time 🙂

[phryneas]

Hey there, I was just experiencing the same problem and the mailing list led me to this open Issue in the Firefox Bug Tracker - you might want to monitor that too :)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324255