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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

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Jul 02, 2020

yzhang90 TheShaunSaw JimmyLiu Wade_Middleton TrueGame RoccoW

Thank you all for weighing in on what you're seeing. Thanks to your feedback, our Searchbar team is investigating this issue! We'll let you know if they have any findings to share.

As our team looks into this, they may need more diagnostic info. So, if you're still seeing this behavior and would like to help us troubleshoot, feel free to let us know in the comments below.

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

Wade_Middleton
Iron Contributor
Jul 03, 2020
Deleted The issue can only be replicated with Search on new tabs uses search box or address bar set to Address bar. You may or may not need a custom search engine set as default (I have not yet tested).
- jessemMSFT
  Microsoft
  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