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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2018
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
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Type: Bug
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Downloads page search field unexpectedly capturing ctrl + f

Project Member Reported by leberly@chromium.org, Jan 25 2018

Issue description

Google Chrome	66.0.3330.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit) (cohort: Clang-64)
Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1709 Build 16299.125

Steps to repro:

# Launch chrome://downloads
# Type ctrl + f
Expected: find dialog is brought up like on any other page
Actual: focus is brought to the search box at the top of the page

Note that this is not just an accessibility issue since I can replicate with no assistive tech. However, it also affects screen reader users. For example, due to this bug, users find themselves in an edit box unexpectedly and there isn't an announcement explaining where they are/why they are there instead of the expected find UI. Tested with JAWS 2018.1801.18 Private Beta. 
 
This doesn't count as a regression because I can repro it as far back as Google Chrome	55.0.2841.0 (Official Build) (64-bit). 

Comment 2 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jan 25 2018

Cc: dbeam@chromium.org
FWIW, there is a workaround of going to the main Chrome dots menu on the top right, and selecting "Find in page".

I believe the fact that ctrl+f triggers searching within downloads, and not "find in page", was intentional. Adding @dbeam to confirm.

Comment 3 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jan 25 2018

Components: -UI>Settings UI>Browser>Downloads
Labels: OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac
Owner: dpa...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
dpapad@ this seems like expected behavior.  Is there anyone who currently owns this/the other chrome:// pages?  Assigning to you to make sure it gets tracked, if you don't know who owns it feel free to bounce back to me.

Comment 5 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jan 25 2018

@dtrainor: Looking at the code history, there is lot of discussion at the original  issue 578323 .

In short, Ctrl+F does not work well because downloads uses a virtualized list, so not all downloads are in the DOM during searching. Focusing the in-page searchbox alleviates that problem and was the suggestion in that bug, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=578323#c4.

Personally I think this is WAI given the previous discussion on this.

Comment 6 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jan 25 2018

Cc: dtrainor@chromium.org

Comment 7 by dpa...@chromium.org, Mar 14 2018

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
See #5.

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