While searching something, switching the app and then returning to search deletes the searched term

[mozilla-campaign-form-bot]

Firefox Version: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Redmi Note 8) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.99 Mobile Safari/537.36 Window Size (inner width and height): 393x851

Steps to Reproduce

-Opening browser app. -Entering keyword. -Switching to another app. -Returning back to browser.

Expected Behavior

The key word which entered in search bar should remain same.

Actual Behavior

The search bar goes to default state

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[mcarare]

IMO this is intended behavior and it is a privacy feature.

[mcarare]

@brampitoyo any input here about what the behavior should be?

[brampitoyo]

@mcarare Actually, this might be a bug that’s specific to our New Tab Page.

• When you repeat the same action in Focus while the middle of browsing, the current states of the URL bar and keyboard are preserved
• When you repeat the same action in Firefox Private Browsing Mode (and PBM of other browsers), the URL bar and keyboard are also preserved

I reckon we should fix it.

[mcarare]

OK. I just thought this would be a privacy feature, so after leaving the browser for some reason, no one else would be able to see your typed search.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[lobontiumira]

I'll re-open this ticket, since I was able to reproduce it on the latest Focus Nightly build 101.0a1 from 4/28 with Oppo Reno 6 (Android 12).

[lobontiumira]

This issue still reproduces on the Focus Nightly 104.0a1 from 7/13 with Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Android 9), and Oppo Reno 6 (Android 12).

[cpeterso]

Moved to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802251

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