No focus in text field (Google) on New Tab - Changed behaviour
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I use google.com as my start-page, and that start-page (ie, google) as my default New Tab. Previous behaviour (3.7) was that the cursor would start in the Google search field. Since 3.8, it doesn't. (Actually I'm not sure where the focus has ended up.)
It's annoying because I've done the same thing for many years, on many browsers, and this is completely breaking my muscle memory. (New Tab, start typing.) Throws me for a loop every time.
I don't think I've changed any settings around the time of the update, and all the obvious settings related to New Tab and focus seem to be what I'd expect. Similarly, it could be Google themselves being weird, I know the behaviour on Chrome has always been different, but not this bad. So I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this.
Ver: Vivaldi 3.822 etc on Win7.
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I am not able to test this because I have blocked Google. Try Settings, Tabs, Tab Handling, and disable:
Focus Page Content on New TabGoogle does not respect your privacy. Try one of the search engines that respect your privacy.
Another way would be to enable your default search on the Start Page and use the start page as your New Tab Page.
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@Pesala
Turning off "Focus Page Content on New Tab" moves the focus to the address bar. Not the behaviour I want."Another way would be to enable your default search on the Start Page and use the start page as your New Tab Page."
That's what I'm doing. First sentence of my post.
However, I just tried doing it the other way, setting New Tab directly to google.com, same issue, no focus on text box. Changed it to another search engine (ddg), same issue.
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I use duckduckgo as my start page. Same issue for me since 3.8, no more focus.
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Vivaldi 3.8.2259.40 (Stable channel) (64-bits)
I have this too. But only when I use the setting of Position New Tab set to "after active tab" (or behind active tab, my browser is set to Dutch so I don't know the English terms). The new tab then after the active tab has no input focus to any field.
Input focus (in my case Google too) works just fine when either there is 1 tab and a new tab is made or when on the last tab in the row.
Almost certain this is a bug, previous version didn't had this. -
Did some more testing with all combinations of settings on tabs and the focus to text field.
- when the focus on text field is disabled, the focus on the address bar works. Be it as new tab behind active tab or as new tab at the end.
- when the focus on text field is enabled, it only works with new tab at the end. When new tab behind the active tab is enabled, there is no focus at all.
- it's not Google related. I tried it also with DuckDuckGo as searchengine on a new tab and there the same problem
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@menno555
I tried a few variations and this concurs with my experience. Well done on spotting that focus works normally when the tab is opened at the end.I'll also add that if you select [New Tab Position//After Active Tab], but then manually open a new tab after the last tab, the focus works as expected. So it's not a bug with the option itself, only the actual position. No idea if that helps the devs.
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Update
I just used my laptop, which hadn't updated Vivaldi for awhile and I noticed that the New Tab focus bug wasn't present. That narrows down when the bug occurred:3.8.2259.37 didn't have the bug.
3.8.2259.42 has the bug, and the previous minor update (I believe 2259.40?) did as well.Both 32-bit, stable channel. Running on Win7.
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@gwen-dragon I just did submit a bug report. It's indeed a regression because like Paul451 said, in previous versions it worked fine.
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Good to know I'm not insane, because this issue has been bugging me too. I'm glad someone was able to reproduce this bug with consistency. Thank you Menno for finding the specific details!
I'd normally roll back versions since this is the type of bug that disrupts my daily workflow, but I'd really like to keep using the new RSS and email features in version 4. I guess that means I'm just going to have to enable opening tabs at the end until this is fixed.
Any updates? I'm running
4.0.2313.33
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Confirmed, the bug is still there. It really is not handy at all in this way.
@GwenDragon Is there anything known about the status of VB-79805 ? -
Is there any news/info on fixing this bug? I just checked with the latest stable build but it's still there.
A bug report was submitted 2 months ago, number VB-79805 -
This is still a problem.
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@Aelius Ask in the Bug Status thread.
Two months is not long at all to fix a bug.
Try Settings, Tabs:
Focus Page Content on New TabWithout that, the focus will be in the URL field.
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@Menno555 Confirmed, no dev assigned.
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@Pesala said in No focus in text field (Google) on New Tab - Changed behaviour:
@Aelius Ask in the Bug Status thread.
Two months is not long at all to fix a bug.
For what it's worth, it's been a problem much longer than two months. Although maybe it was fixed and became a problem again two months ago? Frankly, I'm, uh, not sure where you're even getting two months from. The post previous to mine in this very thread is a year ago.
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Oh wow, that took a year to be picked up again
It's still when the New tab behind active tab setting is used, the new tab behind the active is placed but there is no focus at all. Not in the searchfield or the address bar.
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@Menno555 said in No focus in text field (Google) on New Tab - Changed behaviour:
Is there a way to bump the VB-79805 report again?
No.
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Anyone aware of a workaround, such as perhaps an extension or CSS tweak or something? This single-handedly might be a dealbreaker for my intention to migrate from Firefox. Being able to instantly start searching on google.com as soon as a new tab loads is utterly essential to me.
Using the address bar for searching is unacceptable, for at least two reasons:
1) It autofills URLs (which I like), and I might want to search for something (e.g., "plato") that happens to be the initial string of a URL I've been to (e.g., "plato.stanford.edu".) and I might not notice the autofill before pressing enter and ending up where I don't want to be.
2) I like Google Search's suggestion dropdown. I know there's an option to enable that in the address bar, but that clutters the address bar which should in my opinion be reserved for showing history entries.
Using the search bar on the top-right is also unacceptable, because I will often forget that I changed the search engine to Wikipedia or whatever else. I need a reliable way to ALWAYS end up with a Google search.
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@Aelius
Hi, I play around with Quick Commands and with this setup you can open QC with F2, start typing > Enter start Google search. Suggestions are also show up.I don´t use QC often but every time I test something it get better and better.
Cheers, mib