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Brass Contributor

May 08, 2020

Solved

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

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

RoccoW
Copper Contributor
Jun 23, 2020
TrueGame Thanks for your quick reply!
I got this problem on a fresh new installation, so no flags is set yet(just checked that all omnibox-related flags are set default).
Still no luck after re-installing them both.
- Wade_Middleton
  Iron Contributor
  Jun 25, 2020
  Still experiencing this issue on Stable 83.0.478.56. Hope to see this solved ASAP.
  - RoccoW
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 29, 2020
    A simple workaround for macOS: <cmd+,> to open preference tab, then <cmd+w> to close it, focus is back to page after that.