New tab opened from Vimium never focuses the address bar

zecy

Generally，the input focus is on the address bar on new tab (click Open New Tab or press Ctrl+T). However, when opening a new tab from Vimium (press t), it isn't and that works fine on Chrome/Chromium. Is this a bug？

A Former User

This is now, afaik, normal behaviour for any new tab not opened via Vivaldi’s internal code. I’d say it’s a bug, but you have to ask them (ie. simply report it & see if they fix it at some point).

zecy

report a bug on forum brought me here. Is this a wrong place to report it?

hlehyaric

@zecy Report a bug here.

A Former User

@Gwen-Dragon said in New tab opened from Vimium never focuses the address bar:

extension author

It’s a Vivaldi bug. The address field can only be focused if the tab is opened from Vivaldi’s code, coz it probably handles the focusing in the do-open-new-tab code, not in handle-new-tab-opened or where it should be done.

Names made up, of course.

zecy

Find a solution for me, enable single-key shortcuts, set t as New Tab shortcut and unmap t in Vimium (may be unnecessary). Vivaldi's shortcuts and quick command is awesome but not powerful enough to replace Vimium entirely. Thanks, everyone!

zecy

@Gwen-Dragon Thanks to @hlehyaric, I reported it yesterday.

@hlehyaric said in New tab opened from Vimium never focuses the address bar:

@zecy Report a bug here.

LorenAmelang

@zecy

Generally，the input focus is on the address bar on new tab (click Open New Tab or press Ctrl+T). However, when opening a new tab from Vimium (press t), it isn't

By focused, do you mean any existing address in the address bar is selected, ready to type over, or just that the cursor is in the address bar (at the end of an existing address, for me)? My Vivaldi has swapped in and out of this bug for months now, currently not selected.

zecy

@LorenAmelang Sorry? There is no existing address in my new tab's address bar so that it is just the cursor and ready to type.

sjudenim

@Gwen-Dragon said in New tab opened from Vimium never focuses the address bar:

@zecy Ah, i found it. Confirmed.
VB-75799 "New tab opened from Vimium never focuses the address bar"

Is this related to the addressfield not having focus on browser startup anymore?

debiedowner

@zecy I resorted to the same workaround. I use Vivaldi's single key shortcuts with those identical to Vimium anyway, so that they work on chrome:// pages, on Chrome webstore, while pages are loading, etc.

But it's not an ideal workaround, as Vivaldi's single key shortcuts and Vimium's shortcuts work differently if a webpage also uses that shortcut, e.g. Youtube or Github. On Github, "t" shortcut doesn't work at all, it just activates the file finder. On Youtube, "t" shortcut still works, but it also toggles theater mode, so I still need to remember not to use it and use Ctrl+T while there.

Whereas with Vimium, website's shortcut is never fired and my custom shortcut works instead. If I want to use the website's shortcut, I can use the enterInsertMode shortcut or the passNextKey shortcut. Or if I want to always use the website's shortcut for that particular website, I can add it to the URL's excluded keys. And then I can still override it and use Vimium's shortcut via the passNextKey normal shortcut. Very flexible.

So using both Vivaldi's single key shortcuts and Vimium's shortcuts is best, and Vivaldi's single key shortcuts isn't a full replacement, even ignoring Vimium's other excellent functionality (particularly LinkHints.activateMode), so I am looking forward to this bug getting fixed.

debiedowner

This seems to be fixed in Vivaldi 3.7. I reactivated Vimium "t" shortcut (which overrides Vivaldi's single key "t" shortcut except on chrome:// pages) to try, and newly opened tabs now have the address bar focused.