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Annoing issue with keyboard focus redirects when url miswritten

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When i enter url adress and it wrong, it shows "Page not found" page. At this time i already see i've misspelled and trying to correct BUT focus redirects to "Page not found" page, and i'm typing a new url adress to no avail. I have to take mouse, click on adress field again and repeat. I't is annoying! Can Mozilla team do something about it?

When i enter url adress and it wrong, it shows "Page not found" page. At this time i already see i've misspelled and trying to correct BUT focus redirects to "Page not found" page, and i'm typing a new url adress to no avail. I have to take mouse, click on adress field again and repeat. I't is annoying! Can Mozilla team do something about it?

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After step 3 press [Esc] to stop the page from loading, then press [F6] to access the address bar again.

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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by keyboard focus, but if you've misspelled an address and want to stop loading the wrong page just press [Esc].

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i meant window or in this case area (i.e. url input area, page area ) have or have not text focus, thus can or cant recieve typed text

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Does the F6 key work to bring focus to the location bar?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
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Thats the problem - i dont want to press or click something to be able retype url - its not usable. Just dont take focus off the url bar if user fails to url correctly

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This what happens now: step 1- typing url, step 2 - pressing Enter (firefox takes focus from url bar and tries to load from url) , step 3 - noticing the url is wrong, step 4 - trying to retype, step 5 - noticing that page is failed to load (I khow that! I just typed wrong url!) step 6 - noticing that url bar does not recieves typing (What?!), step 7 - trying to acces why url is not typed in (WTF?!), step 8 - realizing the problem (Damn!), step 9 - taking mouse and clicking url bar. Return to step 1. This things, wile under hurry, can cause a lot of incovinience. More usabiilty!

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Chosen Solution

After step 3 press [Esc] to stop the page from loading, then press [F6] to access the address bar again.