Firefox focus on awesomebar when new tab is created

Question

Firefox doesn't focus on the Awesomebar when creating a new tab automatically (similar to what Google Chrome does), or at least, my installation doesn't.

Does anyone know of anyone a way of doing this?

Thanks!

EDIT: I might have been vague above so here goes: When I open a new tab, Google Chrome autofocuses the typing cursor on the omnibar, so I can start typing site/search straight away.

With Firefox this doesn't happen. If I set the homepage to blank page, and create a new tab, nothing is focused by the typing cursor, if I have anything else as the homepage, it focuses on different elements on the website (depending on the website of course).

I want to replicate something similar like Google Chrome, i.e. if I open a new tab/window, the cursor is placed in the Awesomebar so that I can start typing straight away.

At the moment I have to press Ctrl + L/Alt + D or click on the awesomebar before I can start typing.

Answer 1

Okay so it seemed that others were having the same problem, so the author has come up with a temporary fix till the next version:

1. Go to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile]\extensions
2. Rename MarMod@mario.ar.xpi to MarMod@mario.ar.zip and extract it's contents.
3. Edit the file content/newtab.js by adding if (isElementVisible(gURLBar)) { gURLBar.select(); gURLBar.focus(); } after the line gBrowser.selectedTab = newtab;
4. Save the changes, zip the whole thing up again, and rename the zip back to MarMod@mario.ar.xpi and replace it with the original xpi located profile folder.

After a restart it should be fixed.