Closed Bug 1315328 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Regression Ctrl+K does not take you to the home page anymore

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Version:
52 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: petcuandrei, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20161104030212

Steps to reproduce:

I removed the search engine bar (the one in the upper right corner with Google, Yahoo etc.) in the customize view. It basically looks like Chrome or like the universal search from testpilot.

I went to any page that is not my home page "https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/" for example and pressed Ctrl+K.


Actual results:

The awesome bar got the focus just as if I pressed Ctrl+L not Ctrl+K


Expected results:

The page should load my homepage (about:home in this case).
This worked until 2 days ago so today's Nightly update broke it.
I will try to run mozregression when I get some time.
Here is a video of the bug https://vimeo.com/190292222

It works fine in DevEdition but fails in Nightly. You can see the keys that I type in the bottom right corner. Alt+Home still works on both.
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard Navigation
It's due to bug 1308931.
Blocks: 1308931
Keywords: regression
This was a deliberate change. Note that you can also press Alt+Home to get to your home page.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #3)
> Note that you can also press Alt+Home to get to your home page.

Note that you can also press Ctrl+L to focus on the URL bar. Two keys next to each other now do the exact thing.
I don't want a shortcut to open my home page (which happens to be blank).
I want a shortcut to open about:home, which is what Ctrl+K used to do.
Please reconsider this change.

You are changing a hotkey that has worked like this for many years, and which people rely on. I use it very many times every day, so this change is very painful for me.

There are already two hotkeys to take you to the location bar (Alt+D and Ctrl+L), adding a third is really unnecessary.

It's also the second time you break this hotkey (https://superuser.com/questions/788494/how-to-make-ctrl-k-display-plain-google-homepage-in-firefox).

If you absolutely want a "better" solution to this, create a new "about:search" page and redirect to that when the search bar is not visible instead.
> There are already two hotkeys to take you to the location bar (Alt+D and Ctrl+L), adding a third is really unnecessary.

It really makes no sense to have 3 shortcuts that do the same thing especially since 2 of them are next to each other on the home row (K and L) :(
Or at least have a way to remap keys in about:config or something.
I made a WebExtension that brings back this feature :) Enjoy!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-k-to-about-home/

There are 2 limitations: It only works in web pages so it will not work when you are in about:addons for examaple and the second limitation is that it does not work in some web sites for example in AMO it does not work.
Andrei, that's very nice! Unfortunately it does not work for me, since I am always on a blank page when I press Ctrl-K. =)
So you want a custom page, right? You want to redirect to about:blank instead of about:home. If so then please make an issue in github and I will try to fix it sometime soon. https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/ctrlk2abouthome
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