User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Open a web page
• Click on the address bar (URL is selected)
• Type something, e.g. a search query
• [Shift]+[Tab] to select search dropdown
• Press [Enter] or [Space] to try to enter dropdown

Actual results:

Focus/selected item switches to the first result below the address bar (a search with the default search engine).

Expected results:

The dropdown should be expanded, so another search engine can be selected.

Hello, thank you for the bug report!
Unfortunately I couldn’t reproduce this issue. Would you be so kind as to answer a few questions so we can investigate this further?

• Does this issue happen with a new profile? Here is a link on how to create one: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
• Does this issue happen with latest nightly? Here is a link from where you can download it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
• Does this issue happen when Firefox is in Troubleshoot Mode? Here’s a link on how to enable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-troubleshoot-mode

Thank you.

We can reproduce this when testing the latest nightly. This currently seems to behave differently across platforms.

Additionally on my Mac, it seems worse when there's a page visited/something in the address bar to begin with - if you open up a new tab, and then start entering, shift-tab and space/enter/down works properly.

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1966384

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2cd50a6a1a2a

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:daisuke, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Requesting_an_Uplift for documentation on how to request an uplift.
• If no, please set status-firefox144 to wontfix.

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firefox-beta Uplift Approval Request

• User impact if declined: The way to show the Unified Search Button by keyboard will be inconsistent.
• Code covered by automated testing: yes
• Fix verified in Nightly: no
• Needs manual QE test: no
• Steps to reproduce for manual QE testing:
• Risk associated with taking this patch: low
• Explanation of risk level: The main change in this patch is one line. Also, this affects only the behavior after hiding the popup of Unified Search Button.
• String changes made/needed: None
• Is Android affected?: no

Original Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D267159

Reproduced with Firefox 143.0a1 (2024-07-28) on macOS 15.
Verified as fixed with Firefox 145.0a1 (20251006155229) on macOS 14, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.

Comment on attachment 9518289 [details]
Bug 1979826: Set focused element when popuphiding to avoid focusing processing upon popupshowing

As we are in RC week and no more betas left in this cycle, moving request to release for possible dot release ride-along

Verified as fixed with Firefox 144.0.2 (20251027123126) on macOS 14, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.