Text input loosing focus after switching tabs (Google Docs)
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I'm having the same issue here. Every time I switch tabs, I have to double-click inside the document to make Vivaldi stop reacting to the shortcuts. Several missclicks and data losses have already made me consider switching from Vivaldi.
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@gwen-dragon said in Google Docs loosing input focus after ctrl + tab switch:
3.8.2259.42
Checked in 3.8.2259.42, it's still present.
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Still present in 4.0
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Hello,
I am new to Vivaldi, and I found this subtle yet annoying bug only on Google docs and some other sites when using text input. This bug appears only on Vivaldi, not on any other Chromium based browser. Basically when I switch to another tab away from Google docs, than return back any amount of time later, my cursor is no long focused. By this I mean I need to click where I want to start typing because the the text cursor is stale. I would like the cursor to instead stay alive so I can immediately type after switching tabs. I assume this has something to do with how Vivaldi freezes tabs in background, but even switching away for second sometimes results in this issue.
I can open a bug if nobody has any recommendation for a setting to change.
Linux 5.14 Vivaldi latest stable from Arch repository.
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@HummingbirdSaltalamacchia Welcome here in our Vivaldi Community
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@hummingbirdsaltalamacchia Loss of focus is known for Google Docs with Vivaldi, an annoying and confirmed bug.
But i had not tested with current Vivaldi 4.2/4.3 if issue is gone now.
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@doctorg Is there any bug tracker that I can follow the bug with? Upon searching around there are a lot of old complaints similar to mine. I hope there s an eventual fix.
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@hummingbirdsaltalamacchia said in Text cursor does not stay focused (blinking) after tab switch.:
Is there any bug tracker that I can follow the bug with?
No, bug tracker is not public. Ask me, can check bugs internally.
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In usual browsers, when you switch to a google doc tab and start type, it types in the doc. Why doesn't it do it here? I've disabled single keyboard shortcuts. It's really annoying to find out you've typed half a sentence into thin air.
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@sabahv That is a known & unfixed bug of Vivaldi, it loses the focus.
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I haven't read through all 3 pages of comments, but this is not confined to google docs. When you have chat open on youtube or twitch and change tabs, when you change back the focus is not in the text box. (Especially annoying as the keystrokes execute actions on the video rather than going to /dev/null...)
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@ruler2112 If you have trouble wit tab switching and focus on other sites, please open a new thread. The Google Docs page issue is a special one and not related to other focus issues!
Please read Help us to reproduce the issue carefully and then report bug to Vivaldi tracker.
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I use Google Docs a lot for work and I've found that if you go to another tab, when you switch back to the Google Doc tab, you are not able to type until you put the focus back in the doc, which gets pretty annoying when I have to go back and forth a lot.
I notice that the cursor is flashing for about half a second after switching back to the doc, then stops, which suggests something is happening after it's switched back. The time elapsed on the other tab can be 2 seconds, so it shouldn't be a time out thing.
It's not 100% of the time, sometimes the cursor stops flashing but then restarts after a second and I'm able to type again normally.
This does not occur in Chrome.
TIA
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One other thing I noticed is that Alt-tab to another window does not cause this, and in fact it resolves it. If I've just ctrl-tabbed back to the Google doc, it's not working, if I Alt-tab twice, then cursor will start flashing again and I can type.
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@danny2327 There is already a thread on this. What I've found is that pressing Esc, F9, or another shortcut that is mapped to focus page, it focuses and types.
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Glad I'm not insane. I have this problem too, including with v5 confirmed today. Not in issue in Opera.
It makes trying to use Google Docs partially useless.
It's unfortunate, because otherwise this is the best browser. I guess nothing can be perfect.
On OS X, 11.6, 5.0.2497.24 (Stable channel) (x86_64).
If I TAB through every single element on the page and in the browser, I've eventually gotten focus back. But that's not viable.
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@jvivaldi885
@legobuilder26 said in Google Docs loosing input focus after ctrl + tab switch:For me, after I switch to the GDocs tab, pressing
Escapefocuses it again.This issue bothers me too, though, hope it gets fixed.
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Hello everyone,
This may be a little late, but I think I solved the issue! After reading some forum posts, I had the idea of disabling Vivaldi's Blocking, and it worked! May have been lucky and it was just a fluke, but feel free to try it out!
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@marzukhasan1007 I do not know why you post this, that does not fix the focus loss after navigating with Ctrl-Tab forward to next tab and back to Google Docs tab.
