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note to check accessibility. |
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I wish you can bring back the old search bar on top-center of the page. The current placement of the search icon on right end is very out of place and not user friendly. |
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Description
There's currently no way to expand/move the focus to the search bar on the Settings page other than clicking on the Search icon -- with one exception.
When you first land on
Settings, hittingescwill expand the search bar and move keyboard focus to it so you can start typing. Hittingescagain will close the menu which I believe is intended. However, you can only hitescto expand/collapse the search bar once, after-which hittingesc(or anything) no longer performs this function.Further, using the
escmethod above breaks if anything else is selected on the page.Example 1 (macOS): Hit

cmd + ,to bring up settings, hitescto expand, then to collapse, then hit it again --escno longer expands searchSteps to Reproduce
escto expand searchescagain to close searchescagain to open or move focus to Settings searchActual result:
See gif above
Expected result:
Search should expand/collapse every time
escor some other keyboard shortcut is pressed.Reproduces how often:
Always
Brave version (brave://version info)
Beta v63.50 and up
Version/Channel Information: