Creating a new tab should focus the URL bar on iPad

Brave Feature Requests iOS Requests
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Come on Brave, it shouldn’t be that hard to follow basic UI guidelines. Every other browser focuses on the URL bar when you open a new tab. Let’s get it done!

22

Hi! When is this going to be addressed? Please make the search bar be focused when a new tab opens.

23

Hi dev team, it’s coming on 5 years from the start of this post and not a single word from you on even why you’re not implementing it. Is everything ok? Are you working behind the scenes to prevent a major data breach from coming to light for your users? What is going on?

To clarify I want this on all tablets not just iPads and a simple way to determine what the user wants is how the new tab was opened

  • the user used the touch screeen? do nothing
  • the user pressed a text shortcut to open a new tab? assume the user wants to start typing immediately like a desktop/laptop user since it’s evident that the user in interacting with their device using the same tool - AKA a keyboard!

Thanks for taking the feedback and providing for your users :slightly_smiling_face:

24

Same here, please add this …

25

I’ve created na account just to bring more awareness to this. It is a feature that would greatly improve the experience. Please do it.

26

This is the issue that might eventually get me to leave Brave. Tab doesn’t focus the URL field and Cmd-arrowkey doesn’t move to the start or end. I imagine there are other related UI issues, but those are the two I notice when using a keyboard.

I don’t want to have to reach up and touch the screen constantly.

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I can’t believe this bug is still open, and must be a clear indication no one at HQ is using an iPad because it’s maddening.

But for those stumbling in here, there is one small workaround: Cmd+L focuses on the URL bar. So if you get in the habit of Cmd+T Cmd+L, you can at least focus the cursor in the right spot a little faster.

28

Brave seems to have a thing for ignoring requests pertaining to the URL bar on iOS/iPadOS.

29

I would like to have this as well. Besides the auto-focus, it would be also nice to support opening links in the background with CMD+click. These 2 are the features I miss the most in the iPad.

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@Mattches and @Aa-ron,

who do we have to bribe to get this feature? :nerd_face::money_bag:
and what’s the current progress on this? :victory_hand::sparkles:

~M. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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This has been fixed and is moving down the release pipeline presently: