Keeweb not jumping to the foreground on password fields in macOS Monterey

[dploeger]

Describe the bug I recently updated to macOS Monterey and for some reason, Keeweb stays in the background when using Autotype on password fields.

To Reproduce

1. (on macOS Monterey)
2. Open a web form that has a password field
3. Select that password field
4. Hit autotype
5. Keeweb stays in the background

Expected behavior Keeweb jumps to the foreground (like on any non password field) and shows the autotype selector

Environment KeeWeb v1.18.7 (dfc6201, 2021-07-18) Environment: electron v12.0.7 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 12_0_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) KeeWeb/1.18.7 Chrome/89.0.4389.128 Electron/12.0.7 Safari/537.36

Logs

index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:48.874Z [auto-type] Getting window info
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:48.888Z [auto-type] Window info undefined Anmeldung | Splunk - Google Chrome – Dennis https://prd-p-3xh55.splunkcloud.com/de-DE/account/login?session_expired=1&return_to=%2Fde-DE%2Fapp%2Fmonitoringkubernetes%2Fkube_cluster_audit%3Fform.period.earliest%3D-60m%2540m%26form.period.latest%3Dnow%26form.refresh%3D0%26form.kubernetes_cluster_eval%3D*%26form.kubernetes_node_label%3D*%26form.host%3D*%26form.username%3D*
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:48.888Z [auto-type] processing auto-type event
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.760Z [auto-type] Entry selected Object
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.761Z [auto-type] Hide window
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.868Z [auto-type] Skipped active window check because window id is unknown
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.868Z [auto-type] Start {S:Cloud-Admin-Password}
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.868Z [auto-type] Parsed [op:S]
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:54.868Z [auto-type] Resolved [[*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*]]
index.html:1 2021-11-17T06:32:55.054Z [auto-type] Complete 186ms

[antelle]

Hi! I also updated recently, it does for me! Maybe it needs to be re-added to the accessibility settings of macOS? 🤔

[antelle]

Just to understand, you hit the "global auto-type" hotkey, right?

[dploeger]

Hm, maybe. I'll try that out. Yes, global auto-type-

[dploeger]

Nope, doesn't work. I even reinstalled the app, but the problem persists.

[antelle]

What was the app where you tried to press the auto-type hotkey? What if you try another one?

[dploeger]

With Google Chrome, Safari and the FortiClient (which is based on Chrome as well AFAIK)

[antelle]

Does it work with a non-browser, for example, a text editor?

[dploeger]

Ah, actually yes. I tried it on a password field of a mail account and it works there. So it's only password fields in Browsers apparently.

[antelle]

Interesting. Just tried on Chrome, seems to work for me. Does it work on the new tab page?

[dploeger]

The new tab page? It only happens on password fields. All other fields work fine.

[antelle]

I see! Just tried with a focus in a password field, got the same. I tried on a form with username/password before, same for me too.

[dploeger]

Ah, right.

[auprobst]

Hello

I'm facing the same issue with Firefox, Chrome, MS Teams app, Discord app.

[dploeger]

Hmm... Weird. Starting today, everything's back to normal. I didn't (knowingly) change or update anything. Let's see, if it stays this way.

[dploeger]

Ah, no. After rebooting, it's back. :(

[antelle]

Yeah, same, I thought maybe a new version of macOS fixed it, but it's also like this for me... We need to find a workaround