Bugfix FXIOS-13321 ⁃ [iOS 26] - Find in page bar has a weird behavior in private mode

[dicarobinho]

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Manually display keyboard when FF become active

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[thatswinnie]

While this seems to work, I would prefer if we look for the root cause: why is the keyboard getting dismissed in private mode but not in normal mode?

[dicarobinho]

On iOS 16+, we are using native findNavigator from webView. Safari have the same behaviour in private mode. We can "avoid" that by re-displaying findNavigator.

[thatswinnie]

On iOS 16+, we are using native findNavigator from webView. Safari have the same behaviour in private mode. We can "avoid" that by re-displaying findNavigator.

It works in Safari because they are hiding the toolbars when Find in Page is active. I think instead of trying to bring the keyboard back up we should do the same: hide the toolbars when Find in Page is getting selected and bring them back when Find in Page is off.