Web panel stealing focus while typing in main window
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I have experienced this as well, not in panels but in main tabs. I'm trying to type in a tab but the focus is stuck somewhere else. I am never able to reproduce it unfortunately.
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This seems to happen every time when messenger.com is open in the sidebar and gets a new message, even if some other panel is open at the time.
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This happens to me too, on macOS 10.14 Mojave, but in reverse.
Keyboard focus gets stolen from the web panel to the main window.
Oddly, if a web panel is open and getting text stolen, the main window will also steal focus if i'm trying to type into the main window's address bar.
If I close the web panel, the stealing behavior stops.
It doesn't seem to matter what's in the web panel (spotify, google hangouts, whatsapp, weather underground, etc).
If I restart Vivaldi, the behavior goes away, albeit temporarily.
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This is a problem with messenger.com fo shooo.
Are there any workarounds? -
I reported this issue as VB-65872.
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HAve you noticed any regularity to it? To me it kind os eems random if this is happening or not. But it is highly annoying, I send my google searches to my chat contacts about once a day :-(.
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@rluik said in Bug - Web panel stealing focus while typing in main window:
VB-65872
Every single time with Whatsapp web panel.
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Annoying.
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happens to me as well
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This has been happening to be since a recent update. I run tweetdeck in a web panel, and halfway through tying a URL, I'll all of a sudden be halfway through composing a tweet.
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Yeah, this is the most annoying bug in Vivaldi, it is sad it is still there :-(.
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Latest snapshot fixed "[Panels] Periodic reload steals focus (VB-76536)". Is it related?
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@felagund
Most likely it is about the same bug.
It is - for me - solved now.
Try it out.
However, web panels cause that in new Vivaldi window the focus is not immediately in the address bar. -
Hard to tell, it was not happening for me always, but I hope so. I guess this can be marked as fixed @Gwen-Dragon, if it reoccurs, I would immediately come back:-).
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@thangcuoi You can replicate it like this: have a downloads panel with active download in sidebar. Then switch to some webpanel you also have in a sidebar and the bug starts happening.
This happens also if you have Hangouts as webpanel and you get a new message notification. It will also steal focus.
I already reported a bug right now, it's VB-77386. -
@Gwen-Dragon Oh, I missed the rest of the thread when I replied a second ago.
So, can you tell when will it be fixed in the stable release? -
@Gwen-Dragon It's probably a duplicate of VB-37747, I meant when will the fixes from snapshot you mentioned before be available in stable release? Because it's probably related and I don't want to install a snapshot.
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@tw9 It's up to you of course. I find the latest snapshot the best and it has more fixed issues than the stable.
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@tw9 said in Web panel stealing focus while typing in main window:
@Gwen-Dragon It's probably a duplicate of VB-37747, I meant when will the fixes from snapshot you mentioned before be available in stable release? Because it's probably related and I don't want to install a snapshot.
You can see here https://vivaldi.com/cs/download/archive/ it usually takes less than two months to issue a new version so I would expect a new stable version in two or at most three weeks but bear David Hume in mind:-).
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@felagund Thank you for your answer, I'll wait for two weeks then