On automatic focus on address bar in Firefox mobile browsers

[Miguelyyy]

I’m not sure whether this has been happening for a while, but I recently noticed that when opening a new tab or clicking the address bar to navigate to another page via bookmarks, these actions lead to automatic focus on the address bar (showing the cursor to input inside the address bar).
This has mainly two noticeable disadvantages:

1. When opening a new tab, one must first defocus from the address bar to click the predefined bookmarks. For bookmark-heavy users, this forces them to take one more step to navigate to another page in bookmarks.

2. When clicking the address bar on the displaying webpage, it shows the page with list of bookmarks, which is called the “homepage” of the Firefox mobile browser. However, it also automatically focuses into the address bar while displaying the “homepage” over the current page. When trying to defocus from the address bar for the sake of clicking the bookmarks, it doesn’t let me do that, but just returns to the current page that was being displayed before clicking the address bar. This behavior prevents users from navigating to another page predefined in bookmarks without opening a new tab, which results in huge resource inefficiency.

My suggestion: When opening a new tab or clicking the address bar, let the user click a bookmark regardless of whether the address bar is focused. If the user can click a bookmark while the input cursor is blinking in the address bar, no issue occurs.

Thank you for reading my suggestion!

[Jon]

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[Miguelyyy]

This issue is solved after updating the mobile browser!