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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon huhu

usability fix: release URL address bar focus

Open samwhitlock opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

what happens now

  1. enter a search via cc in the URL bar
  2. hit enter
  3. URL bar does not release the focus. It requires a mouse click to navigate away from it.

what I would expect

in step 3, after hitting enter, the URL bar would release focus like doing any other search / url entry with it. This is especially useful for folks who use heavily keyboard-centric navigation in browsers (e.g. the Vimium extension).

my system

  • Firefox on OpenSUSE tumbleweed (but it happens on every platform I've tried)

samwhitlock avatar Feb 18 '21 07:02 samwhitlock

Hi @samwhitlock. Thanks for reporting. You are not the only one who complains about this. See rust-search-extension#102.

Folyd avatar Feb 19 '21 02:02 Folyd

+1 it would be a great usability improvement. The relevant browser bugs seem to be https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1324762 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374656, not sure if it makes any difference but I starred the issue.

mauricelam avatar Aug 29 '23 23:08 mauricelam