1465796 - Open address bar URL in new tab with CMD + Enter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 741067

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Benoît Burgener]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180516032328

Steps to reproduce:

In an existing tab, change the current page URL and hit "⌘ + Enter"


Actual results:

The new URL is loaded in the current tab


Expected results:

The new URL should have been open in a new tab and the existing tab should have stayed as is.

Comment 1

[Benoît Burgener]

The desired behavior is actually working if you use "⌥ + Enter" but this is not consistent. The command key is already used to open links in a new tab in various other cases: any navigation button in the navigation bar (previous, next, reload, home), clicking a link inside a page and probably others I don’t know.

Also it differs from Chrome implementation, which doesn’t help Chrome users moving to Firefox (like I recently did).