Cursor focus still in Chrome's address bar after pressing ENTER

[clarkwang]

I need to explicitly click on the opened page so I can use Up/Down keys for scrolling. Could we make the address bar lose focus after pressing ENTER?

[ChrisNZL]

tl;dr: Press Tab afterwards to shift focus off of Chrome's Omnibox and onto the page.

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Which version of Chrome and operating system are you using?

Is this issue when using F+Spacebar from Chrome's Omnibox (which is really clunky as of Chrome 97)?

Or is this from using Fauxbar's Address Box?

Could you please screenshot, or record a GIF (I recommend ShareX), so I can see what you mean (just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly)?

If this is from Chrome's Omnibox, Chrome's Omnibox + extension search behaviour has gotten worse over time with newer Chrome versions. Chrome keeps making it more cumbersome to initiate a search. If the caret is in the Omnibox, Fauxbar can't automatically change focus to the page, and yes, it's annoying how the Omnibox retains focus despite the search executing and the page loading.

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In Chrome 97, typing f stuff merely suggests for me to search using Fauxbar:

whereas in previous versions of Chrome, typing f stuff would immediately jump to the Omnibox+Fauxbar search and have stuff be my search query.

(however, the focus would still remain inside the Omnibox; this is out of Fauxbar's control)

But now, with Chrome 97, it seems the user has to click the 🔍 Fauxbar button to initiate the Omnibox+Fauxbar search; pressing Down Arrow then Enter searches with Google, rather than Fauxbar. This is poor design by the Chromium team.

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If I click the suggested 🔍 Fauxbar entry, this initiates the Omnibox+Fauxbar search:

But afterwards, Chrome's Omnibox retains focus:

... and there is nothing Fauxbar can do to change focus.

This is kind of why I built Fauxbar; a whole page with control over how Address Box results can be interacted with, rather than using Chrome's limited Omnibox.

The whole F+Spacebar shortcut was added as a convenience feature (just because Chrome offers it in their chrome.omnibox API), but in recent versions of Chrome over the years, the Omnibox has gotten less and less convenient.

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If you press Tab afterwards, you can at least focus the page without clicking.

[clarkwang]

Is this issue when using F+Spacebar from Chrome's Omnibox (which is really clunky as of Chrome 97)?

Right it's from Chrome's address bar. I'm using Fauxbar Lite.

This is kind of why I built Fauxbar; a whole page with control over how Address Box results can be interacted with, rather than using Chrome's limited Omnibox.

The whole F+Spacebar shortcut was added as a convenience feature (just because Chrome offers it in their chrome.omnibox API), but in recent versions of Chrome over the years, the Omnibox has gotten less and less convenient.

OK I'll switch to Fauxbar and configure it as the default New Tab page.

Thanks.

[clarkwang]

Have been trying for some time. Finally I'd still use Fauxbar Lite but I configured a keyboard shortcut (I'm using Alt-T) to Open Fauxbar Lite's Address Box in a new tab. I also added a new Chrome keyword fx to open Fauxbar Lite in current Tab. So 4 use cases in total:

1. Press Ctrl-T to open Chrome's new Tab page.
2. Press Alt-T to open Fauxbar in a new Tab.
3. Go to Chrome's address bar and enter f<SPACE> to use Fauxbar in Chrome's address bar.
4. Go to Chrome's address bar and enter fx<ENTER> to open Fauxbar in current Tab.

[clarkwang]

But now, with Chrome 97, it seems the user has to click the 🔍 Fauxbar button to initiate the Omnibox+Fauxbar search; pressing Down Arrow then Enter searches with Google, rather than Fauxbar.

Fauxbar Lite works fine for me with Chrome 97. It'll automatically become this after I input f<SPACE>: