Vimium: Vimium cannot "click" select elements

[daemedeor]

Previously when I used vim on Chrome 51 or thereabouts the dropdown used to open when I hit f and then the associated tag that vimium tagged the field with. Now vimium still tags the field but it doesn't seem to open the select boxes. I tried it on several pages by adding my own select boxes but I'm not quite sure why its not working. Any workaround?

[smblott-github]

@daemedeor... Could you provide an example page?

(This works on Facebook, for me.)

[daemedeor]

Here: http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/234140/?snr=1_239_4__122, if you have steam. also note: I'm on Chrome 53, Seirra, macOS.

[smblott-github]

This sounds more likely to be a change in how the page is implemented. All Vimium does is "click" the element, and that hasn't changed. To get the drop down you have to hover (which Vimium cannot currently do).

The Vimium click behaviour seems to be exactly the same as a mouse click.

[romgrk]

Hello,
I have been seeing warnings pop up in the console (when clicking through vimium), saying that some non-standard behaviors would be removed from Chrome sometime during September, so I'm guessing that this is it. I'm using version 54 and those warnings have disappeared, along with the ability to click through vimium.

[romgrk]

After a bit of investigation, it seems that it is indeed unstandard to be able to open a select element through javascript. Given that Chrome/ium is lately pushing to more standardization, I think it is unlikely they will go back to the old behavior. I would recommend at least triggering a 'focus' event on such elements, so the user can trigger it with space subsequently.

[smblott-github]

@romgrk... If you're referring to the following console message regarding keyIdentifier, then we already have code in place to cover its removal:

Regarding Chrome 54... I tried it, and didn't have any issues with link hints. Please post a link and a description of the steps to reproduce.

[romgrk]

Oh, well,

1. Find any select element (eg the selects elements from the steam page above)
2. f + xx
3. No reaction; the vimium flash shows up but then nothing more.

And no, it was a similar warning but it was triggered when "clicking" a select element. Unfortunately I can't give you any data because it doesn't show up anymore.

[smblott-github]

OK. I see now. It's the same in Chrome 53.

Edit... There's a better test page here.

[gdh1995]

Before Chrome 52/53, <select> element is "opened" on a mousedown event, but the Chrome developers changed this behavior into:

• only those default browser actions triggered by click events are allowed to be called by untrusted events (which are usually created by JavaScript code)
• so clicking <a download=""> will trigger the File Save Dialog
• while we have no methods to "open" a <select> popup menu.

Some ones have pulled a request to add .open() and .close() methods to <select> elements, but it's not accepted yet.

You may see https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5718803933560832 for more explanations.

[IamGianluca]

This happens also when browsing the python documentation. If you try to move to the same page for a different version of python using the drop down menu on the top left of the page.

Browser: Google Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit)
OS: GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Vimium: 1.57

Interestingly the same doesn't happen in GitHub.

[daemedeor]

@IamGianluca It's important to note that some "drop down boxes" are not really drop down boxes. Like the upper part where "Watch" is, even though the behavior is similar to a drop down, its actually a link. Probably so they could have an easier time to stylize it. Overriding the default select boxes are a world of pain

[nilskaspersson]

Running focus() on the <select> when it's clicked through Vimium is probably the best solution to this issue.

[jlevitt]

I've also hit this issue, used to work, now no selects work with vimium. I see #2338 may fix this issue? Is there a way to get the update? (I don't see a new release).

[smblott-github]

I think we'll push the new stuff in the coming week or two; just need to check with @philc.

[AndrewSouthpaw]

Any chance we can get a version bump? Not having access to dropdowns reduces the usefulness of this (otherwise excellent) extension.

[philc]

+1, let's release. No need to hold back the fixes in master.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Smith [e-mail]
wrote:

Any chance we can get a version bump? Not having access to dropdowns
reduces the usefulness of this (otherwise excellent) extension.

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[smblott-github]

let's release

Will do.

Edit... Done. 1.58 is out.