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mbnuqw / sidebery

Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.
MIT License
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Auto-Focus Search Bar #854

Open markran opened 1 year ago

markran commented 1 year ago

On opening the sidebar if the search bar is visible (eg visibility set to "Always Shown"). Then the search bar should automatically get focus. This would enable the user to start typing to find a bookmark immediately (I default my view to Bookmarks Panel).

I checked in Bookmarks Panel and History Panel and on sidebar open it appears nothing else has keyboard focus (eg arrow keys don't change selection or do anything).

Also, thanks for a brilliant add-on!

mbnuqw commented 1 year ago

Blocked by: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502713 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1655353

a-pav commented 1 week ago

Have you considered making Sidebery to open as a (separate/popup) web page?

It'll probably require some work in order for it to do that, and having it as a side bar has its own benefits I guess. But as it's evident, the APIs are insufficient and the two blocking issues you've linked haven't seen any activity in past two years. Besides, nothing beats the freedom you'll get in a webpage.

Years back that I used to use Chrome, Tabs Outliner worked this way; it was basically a separate window. Bitwarden on Firefox can also be used as a separate window, and it has its search field auto-focused.