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I agree with Mournir Lamouri that this problem is may be complicated
than I first thought when I posted a duplicate bug a few years ago, and
welcome his introduction of debate into this discussion

I do, however find his suggestion that websites should use autofocus
unhelpful. I suspect the majority of web developers are not
accessibility gurus who have the time to pay attention to issues like
this.

I would like to prompt for examples where a broken refocus would cause an issue to the user.
I can think of an example where this might break the website, but doesn't affect the user much: auto-advancement to the next field when the character limit is reached in, for example, keys that are broken by spaces for ease of use (can't remember the term for this right now).

I feel the next stage of discussion should be about when and where focus
can be altered by a webpage or the gui, and if we can isolate these
instances if needed

One such case is password fields. I believe it is a critical security
flaw that a user's password can be revealed to anyone watching the
screen, be it in the workplace or over a projector screen. (@Mournir
Lamouri I hope you won't suggest "learn touchtyping" :) )

Until further discussion on this issue, I move that refocussing should
be disabled for password fields whilst the user is typing. Can we agree
on this?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24398

Title:
  Form field focus should not be set if user has begun entering text.

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After loading a page containing a form, Firefox automatically focuses the first
  input field in the tab order.  It should not do this if the user has already
  begun entering data into the form.  Not only is the current behavior annoying,
  but it is a potential security issue.  I have often typed passwords into
  plaintext fields because Firefox changed the field focus after a slow page load.

  If the event handling isn't too messy, it should also not change the input focus
  if the user is typing something in the address bar or search bar.

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