philc / philc/vimium

Vomnibar input doesn't receive focus on Chrome canary (v 132.0.6806.1)

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Description

Describe the bug

When opening the vomnibar by pressing e.g T it opens up, but it doesn't receive focus, nothing seems to respond to input until I click the bar. When opening a second time on the same tab it works though. I've checked that the permissions seems fine as suggested in similar issues.

Browser and Vimium version

Google Chrome | 132.0.6806.1 (Official Build) canary-dcheck (64-bit) (cohort: DCHECK-64)
Revision | 706e653689cd92665d3f28148e50d0d8cbc7d1d8-refs/branch-heads/6806@{#2}
OS | Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.4391)
JavaScript | V8 13.2.82
User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line | "C:\Users\marpe\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" --force-prefers-no-reduced-motion --restart --restart --flag-switches-begin --enable-experimental-web-platform-features --enable-smooth-scrolling --flag-switches-end

Vimium Version: 2.1.2


Edit

I thought it was working after manually focusing the vomnibar, but it fails sometimes when toggling the bar on and off by hitting eg T -> ESC -> T a couple of times afterwards too. No clue what's causing it to fail, seems pretty random.

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Research direction

No source file or test is named. Reproduce in Chrome Canary using T, then ESC, then T repeatedly, and trace the vomnibar focus behavior; done means the input receives focus on the first opening and after repeated toggles without requiring a click.

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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