New tab default focus is on address/url bar rather than search bar

maxhu08 / mtab

🌴 lightweight new tab page extension

https://get-mtab.vercel.app

MIT License

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Closed i5-650 closed 1 month ago

i5-650 commented 1 month ago

Hello,

I'm facing some minor issue with mtab:

If I create a new tab, the default focus is on the address/url bar (the bar at the top of the browser) and not on the search bar.

I tried changing some firefox settings (see this reddit post for the changes I made) and it doesn't change anything.

I'm on firefox Version 130.0.1 (64-bit), aarch64, MacOS 15, if it helps you.

Could you do something about it or is it on firefox side ?

maxhu08 commented 1 month ago

It's a browser issue.

New tab extensions can't control focus. The browser will always focus the address bar first when opening a new tab, and .focus() is just ignored.

Sorry.

i5-650 commented 1 month ago

No big deal, thanks for the infos