Closed Bug 1183286 Opened 9 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Search keyboard shortcut, with searchbar hidden, should focus the location bar instead of opening about:home

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P4)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1308931

People

(Reporter: jaws, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxsearch]) 

Pressing Ctrl+E on a webpage when the Search box has been put in the "More Tools"/Customize pane redirects the page to about:home.

Expected:
Focus should be moved to the location bar, but the page shouldn't navigate.

Actual:
The page navigates to about:home and the search box on about:home is focused.
It may have redirected to the search provider's webpage before. But now that we do a good job supporting search from the location bar we shouldn't introduce an extra navigation.
This isn't new, at all. The original "has a navigation" behaviour dates back to pre-1.0.  We changed to about:home instead because that was a cleaner, faster alternative.

That said, I think it's a valid RFE to consider, now that we have suggestions in the search bar.  Morphing accordingly.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Keywords: regression, regressionwindow-wanted
Summary: Pressing Ctrl+E on a webpage when the Search box has been put in the "More Tools"/Customize pane redirects the page to about:home → Search keyboard shortcut, with searchbar hidden, should focus the location bar instead of opening about:home
Priority: -- → P4
Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
Rank: 45
This is a duplicate of bug 1308931
(In reply to Mathew Hodson from comment #3)
> This is a duplicate of bug 1308931

Thank you for pointing this out.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.