Vivaldi focuses shield icon in address bar on startup

[Pathduck]

@stevehart Please make a screenshot of how it looks after starting up, and how you tell focus is on the shield icon. Even better, a screen recording.

There is a long-standing issue in Vivaldi, that on first start-up it will focus the Start Page/web page instead of the url field, no matter the "Focus Page Content" setting. On subsequent tab/window opens, focus is correctly placed. If new tabs/windows are opened from the task bar context menu, the focus issue is also present. However, this does not sound like your issue.

The ONLY way I can think of to focus the shield on startup is if "Focus All Controls" are enabled in Keyboard settings AND Shift+Tab is pressed twice.

So what you're seeing is not anything like expected behaviour, I've not heard anyone else seeing this, and there's no setting to control this. So we'll have to assume it's something else - extensions, software on your machine etc.

[stevehart]

@Pathduck Here is a screen recording of the issue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bnDhk0PtrakfeZsHY4S8JLeNUV3Y234e/view?usp=sharing

On a side note, I tried changing the setting you mentioned and now when it starts up, it doesn't select the address bar or the shield icon at all.

[stevehart]

Here is all the programs installed on my laptop. Might also be worth mentioning again that this is a fresh install of Windows 10.

[Pathduck]

@stevehart said in Focus address bar on startup:

Here is a screen recording of the issue:

OK that's a weird effect.
Have you tried in a clean profile as the troubleshooting steps say?

That does not look like a clean profile - and you have extensions under the icon as well.

On a side note, I tried changing the setting you mentioned and now when it starts up, it doesn't select the address bar or the shield icon at all.

Well what does it select now?
The default is "Focus Input" and with that TAB will only focus input fields.
Did you change it back to the default?

Here is all the programs installed on my laptop.

There's no way anyone can guess from a list of installed apps. You'll have to try and figure out if any of them might be causing it. The usual way is to uninstall... or at least disable them from running. If I was to make a complete guess that shady sounding "ExplorerPatcher" would be the first thing to check.

First thing I think is following the troubleshooting steps already linked step by step.

[stevehart]

@Pathduck Yes, per the troubleshooting steps, the first thing I tried was creating a new profile. On that profile, it focuses the address bar on startup as normal.

Changing the setting to focus on inputs, on startup it now focuses the first item in my Speed Dial. I changed it back to focus on all controls and now it is focused on the shield icon once again.

I have tried uninstalling ExplorerPatcher and rebooted, the issue is still present.

I suppose I should now try resetting the settings on my main profile. 30 minutes setting it all back up, here we go...

[stevehart]

@Pathduck After resetting all of the settings, this is the end result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJKAYn4BP6a-PeoP-yp1H2sjRDL1orz_/view?usp=sharing

[Pathduck]

@stevehart OK good - that's the expected result - focus is on the first SD dial.

You didn't have to reset your settings. That's what a clean profile is for, if it works there, you know it's something in your regular profile.

Then you try to reproduce the issue by changing the clean profile to match your old, step by step. Then at some point, with restarts in between each change maybe you'll find the combination of settings that causes this and you have a good base for a bug report.

If you're more technical, you can for instance rename your old Default profile folder, and let Vivaldi create a new one from scratch on startup. Then work with that, and you'll still have the old one to move back to once you figure it out. Or even better, work with Standalone installs to not change anything in your work profile.

I can't really figure out what might be the setting you've changed. Could be a combination of settings. But what? All I can tell from your video:

• Theme with massive corner rounding
• Changed V button look
• Extensions installed
• Moved some address bar buttons around
• Downloads popup
• Turned off Status Bar

Edit: I tried reproducing your settings from what I could tell in your video, on startup focus is on the first SD icon as expected:

[arashams]

@Pathduck Can we change this behavior to something like Firefox, in which the focus is on the address bar, not the SD dial?

[Pathduck]

@arashams That's what it does for me, and that's the default behaviour so I don't know what you're doing wrong...

[arashams]

@Pathduck I noticed that this problem (or behavior) only happens on the startup page when you run the Vivaldi (not when opening new tabs)

[Pathduck]

@arashams No it does not. It only happens when launching a new Window from the taskbar context menu when the browser is already running.

[arashams]

@Pathduck, as @stevehart mentioned this issue happens to me as well only when starting vivaldi not opening new tabs/windows:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJKAYn4BP6a-PeoP-yp1H2sjRDL1orz_/view

[Pathduck]

@arashams Well, Steve hasn't returned so we don't know what his problem was.

Make sure your Startup With setting is set to "Home Page" and your Home Page to "Start Page". If Startup With is "Start Page" it will lose focus on startup, that's a known bug.

The default setting is "Session" and it works fine with that setting as well.

[arashams]

@Pathduck Thank you. it solved my problem

[stevehart]

@Pathduck Honestly I still have no idea what the problem was.

I ended up switching to Microsoft Edge, then back to Vivaldi and configured it exactly the same way as before and it didn't screw up the address bar focus this time.

I am now back on Microsoft Edge since Vivaldi kept crashing with some websites.

Thanks for your help, though! Appreciate it

[wojtek]

@Pathduck said in Focus address bar on startup:

There is a long-standing issue in Vivaldi, that on first start-up it will focus the Start Page/web page instead of the url field, no matter the "Focus Page Content" setting. On subsequent tab/window opens, focus is correctly placed. If new tabs/windows are opened from the task bar context menu, the focus issue is also present. However, this does not sound like your issue.

The ONLY way I can think of to focus the shield on startup is if "Focus All Controls" are enabled in Keyboard settings AND Shift+Tab is pressed twice.

Argh... I'm having exactly the same issue. Everything works perfectly for new tab / new window (focus in in the addressbar) BUT NOT when starting vivaldi - there is no focus so I manually have to type CMD+L to focus it, highly annoying...

I have "Start page" as startup (only available option) and "Focus page content" DISABLED

[Pathduck]

@wojtek Hi, you chose a strange old post to quote. The OP for this topic never returned and their issue was very different.

I posted a year later a possible solution for someone else who dug this topic up:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/772125

[wojtek]

@Pathduck said in Vivaldi focuses shield icon in address bar on startup:

Hi, you chose a strange old post to quote.

It fit exactly my issue

@Pathduck said in Vivaldi focuses shield icon in address bar on startup:

I posted a year later a possible solution for someone else who dug this topic up:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/772125

Hmm... I saw that but somehow missed / didn't work for me. With a fresh mind today and indeed switching "start with" from "last session" (sensible) to "Homepage" makes vivaldi focus on address bar.

However it's only a workaround and quite buggy I'd say:

• having "last session" makes more sense in most cases (we want to restore it still
• switching it to "homepage" works (addressbar is focused afterstartup) but it doesn't work if we use set it to "start page" (which is the default for "homepage" xD) so there is definitelly something odd going on there.

IMHO it's a bug and if the browser opens with a window where the tab is empty/start page it should focus on the addressbar... plain and simple...

[mib2berlin]

@wojtek
Hi, it does, open Vivaldi from the task bar, desktop shortcut or open a new window from the menu or Ctrl+N.
Last session is enabled.
I never saw it focused on the shield icon.
Please check this in a Guest Profile or better in a new Profile.
If you can reproduce it there then it is maybe a bug.

[Pathduck]

@wojtek said in Vivaldi focuses shield icon in address bar on startup:

With a fresh mind today and indeed switching "start with" from "last session" (sensible) to "Homepage" makes vivaldi focus on address bar.

Setting it "Last Session" works for me, the browser starts with the address field focused.

UNLESS of course your last session ended on an actual web page and not the Start Page - then it focuses the web page - as it should. This is not a bug and working as it should.

You should also note that in Settings > Tabs > Tab Handling the "Focus page content on new tab" setting says "new tab".
This setting only applies to new tabs - it does not apply to opening the browser, unless the browser actually starts with a new tab i.e. the Start Page. Makes sense?