Comment 26 for bug 387957

While that technically would work, for many of us who are expecting the selection when beginning typing that would also be confusing. I don't necessarily notice that the selection box has popped up at the bottom when I'm looking at the name.

One thing that I think would help this bug (for me anyway) would be to differentiate the highlight colour between boxes that have focus and boxes that don't. For example if it were a grey highlight when it did not have focus and a slightly orangish (or whatever for the new theme) tinge for highlighted+focused it would (eventually) be obvious that you don't have it focused.

Though I definitely agree in general that the better fix is simply to revert focus back to the name.