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    D'kard Highwind
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    Goblin
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    Red Mage Lv 58

    FFXIV Launcher on PC sometimes visually indicates that it has focus, when it does not

    Date & Time: Ongoing
    Frequency: Uncommon, but with perfect timing it could happen frequently
    SYSTEM_OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (Build 19042.985)

    Steps:

    1. Run the FFXIV Launcher.
    2. Click a different program's window at the exact wrong moment. (Approximately right as the FFXIV Boot program disappears, before the FFXIV Launcher appears.)
    3. (Optional) Accidentally start to type your login details into the wrong program.

    Full description:
    I ran into an issue today per the title (opening the launcher along with other applications), so of course my first step was to go to google to see if it was something known and was affecting others. The only relevant result was this thread: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/422438
    The details and steps are the same other than the OS version so I'm copying it from the other thread

    It seems as if that thread was closed, but the issue still seems to be happening almost a year later. It's not a good look for overall security when the password field is incorrectly showing focus.

    To answer the questions posed by the mod in advance: this is the first time it has impacted me. It's certainly the first time I've noticed it, due to the embarrassment of entering my password in a random discord server instead of the FFXIV launcher's password field. It's possible that this bug has happened in the past but changing applications before coming back to the launcher means the field would have lost fake focus by then, so I wouldn't have noticed. The issue seems to stem from opening the launcher along with another application, as the poster in the other thread stated.

    Additionally, it doesn't matter what steps I take in the future (because lesson learned and all - it won't happen again). The point is that this should never happen even once to anyone.
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    Last edited by auxarc; 05-19-2021 at 11:39 AM.