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Why Can't Search Box Auto-Focus When Opening Sidebar? Chrome Side Panel Focus Limitation
Chrome browser security restrictions prevent extensions from auto-focusing the search box or typing text when the side panel opens. This is a browser design limitation requiring manual click.
Chrome browser security restrictions prevent extensions from auto-focusing the search box and typing text when the side panel opens.
This is a browser design limitation, unrelated to extensions.
Why Can't It Auto-Focus?
Chrome has implemented focus control restrictions on extensions for security reasons:
- •When side panel opens, focus remains on the current webpage
- •Extensions cannot programmatically obtain focus
- •This is to prevent malicious extensions from disrupting user input
How to Resolve?
Since this is a browser-level limitation, there's currently no technical workaround.
After opening the sidebar, you need to:
Manually click the search box to start typing
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