focusinput's weird behaviour on google search box

[shisui98]

• Brief description of the problem: :focusinput has weird behaviour on Google search input box.

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Visit google.com.
  2. Use gi to focus input on the search bar if it's not focused already.
  3. Type in anything, in this case "Tridactyl" and hit enter.
  4. Now use gi again to focus input on the search bar.
  5. You'll see that the cursor is placed at the start/front of text and not at the end of text/line.

  I remember clearly the default behaviour to be latter (cursor at end of text) in google and it is still the default behaviour in other search engines (tested on duckduckgo and startpage). While this realy isn't a big problem, it kinda feels off when the behaviour is exclusive to Google search input.

• My current workaround

  Easy. :bind --mode=input <C-e> text.end_of_line

• Firefox version: 102.11.0esr (64-bit) with Tridactyl 1.23.0

• Waterfox version: 5.1.4 (64-bit) with Tridactyl 1.23.0pre6760-a5196759 (Waterfox is a fork of Firefox)

• URL of the website the bug happens on: Google

• Config: viewconfig_user.json

• Contents of ~/.tridactylrc or ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc: N/A

  EDIT: Disabling javascript seems to fix the issue.

[bovine3dom]

Thanks for filing this issue. I noticed it a while ago and it really annoys me too.

We might be able to add a workaround just for Google but no promises :)

[rlch]

Hey guys, thanks for raising this and providing a workaround.

I've improved the workaround a little bit so that gi is the only command required to replicate the original behaviour:
bind --mode=normal gi composite focusinput -l | text.end_of_line

Hope this helps :)

[bovine3dom]

Ah, thanks, that would be easy to add as a site specific default, I'll try to remember to do it