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Brass Contributor

May 08, 2020

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Address bar steals focus

Hello, Edge has been working very well for a long time. However, I found recently that when you open a new tab, the focus is not on the webpage but still on the address bar. (Note that InPrivate...

jessemMSFT
Jul 09, 2020
Hey folks, I'm a dev from the Edge Address Bar team. I wanted to give a hearty Thank You for the invaluable information. Because of that we were able to deploy the fix yesterday. Since this was a server-side change, this fix should be live now.

Thanks again!

-Jesse

Anonymous

May 08, 2020

yzhang90 We appreciate you reporting this and making that helpful GIF. I have two questions for you:

Of the fours build channels (Stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary) which one(s) are you seeing this in?
If you haven't yet, can you please submit feedback for this? And if you'd like to make sure it gets to the correct team ASAP, feel free to DM me and I can give you a code to include in the description.

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

yzhang90

Brass Contributor

May 09, 2020

Deleted Thanks for the reply.

1. I'm using the stable build (I think) as I don't see any badge (like `beta`) on the Edge icon.

(Version 81.0.416.72)

2. I'd like to but I'm not sure where I should submit the feedback. That's why I posted it here 😅.

Anonymous
May 12, 2020
yzhang90 Thanks for the info! Replying to your DM.

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
- RoccoW
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 23, 2020
  I'm still having this exact problem, any possible solutions?
  
  Here's my Edge builds: 83.0.478.54(stable) and 85.0.552.0(canary).
  - TrueGame
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 23, 2020
    are you using omnibox setting in edge://flags
    
    if so, set them in default
TrueGame
Iron Contributor
May 12, 2020
yzhang90 it was fixed in canary version
- yzhang90
  Brass Contributor
  May 12, 2020
  Happy to hear that