How to disable autofocus on urlbar when opening a new tab ?
Hello !
I wanted google.fr as homepage. I changed the value directly in "about:config" without installing any extension.
Now firefox autofocuses the url bar, forcing me to click on google searchbar. It doesn't seems logical to me, since there is a shortcut to focus on urlbar (Alt + D), that the focus goes there by default.
Is there a way to avoid this waste of ergonomy and time ?
Thanks for helping !
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Ok, thanks for advice.
My goal was to hit Ctrl+T and instantly continue typing without taking my hands off the keyboard.
I wont click to open a newtab, I wont install any extens to say my browser it has to focus on the page i chose to visit... Thank you cap'tain obvious !
I'm still wondering why focus goes by default on address bar at homepage loading. It's not logical nor ergonomic. I'll double-load my homepage everytime, until a dev finds useful to add a boolean entry "browser.newTab.autofocusUrl" in about:config.
Thank you anyway Best
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For the new tab page you can look at this extension.
- New Tab Tools: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/
Actually, I would like to avoid installing an extens for something like that.
I can't understand why the focus goes on the urlbar. Worse ! It doesn't even select the url. Just placing cursor at the end of it.
Can assume it's useful when homepage is about:blank, but otherwise...
Why focus doesn't just go in the page's body ?
I just found that hitting enter does the trick by refreshing the page.
Do I really need installing an extension to avoid loading every homepage 2 times ??
Thanks for your time
You can use a bookmark on the Bookmarks Toolbar and middle-click (or hold Ctrl and left-click) that bookmark to open the page in a new tab.
Vybrané riešenie
Ok, thanks for advice.
My goal was to hit Ctrl+T and instantly continue typing without taking my hands off the keyboard.
I wont click to open a newtab, I wont install any extens to say my browser it has to focus on the page i chose to visit... Thank you cap'tain obvious !
I'm still wondering why focus goes by default on address bar at homepage loading. It's not logical nor ergonomic. I'll double-load my homepage everytime, until a dev finds useful to add a boolean entry "browser.newTab.autofocusUrl" in about:config.
Thank you anyway Best
The new tab page behaves differently when it comes to the focus. The default about:newtab page that when used has a search bar that gets focus. If you set a different page as the new tab page via the browser.newtab.url pref then the location/address bar gets focus and this bypasses JavaScript used on web pages like Google to set the focus to their search bar. The New Tab Tools extension has a setting to prevent this.