The only way I was able to reproduce anything similar to this was when doing the following:
- Create a new profile
- Open it
- Before you interact with the address bar in any way, opening new tabs does not cause the address bar to be focused
- As soon as you interact with the address bar, it is automatically focused in all subsequent tabs.
Are you able to reproduce the above @cyberchef ? Do any new profiles you create also exhibit the behavior you have described in your report?