1487632 - AltGr+Enter does not open URL in new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1389739

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

Updated to FF63 beta 1. 

In Estonian and Russian keyboard layout AltGr+Enter does not open a URL in a new tab anymore.

This is a one more regression, as bug 1389739 is.

Comment 1

[Eugene Savitsky]

It is a dataloss bug, since AltGr does open in the same tab. 
My example: 
1. edited an Adwords campaign
2. needed to open a new site
3. put it in URL bar
4. pressed AltGr+Enter to open it in a new tab

Acrual result: the URL was opened in same tab, where I had unfinished work.

Extected result: URL is opened in a new tab, unsaved work remain in a other tab.

Comment 2

[Eugene Savitsky]

In US English layout no problem. It seems only languages that uses AltGr for other symbols are affected.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is not exactly a regression, the meaning of the AltGr button was recently changed in the platform code, and we must fix the frontend code to cope with it by handling AltGraph as Alt.

I fail to see how this differs from bug 1389739, why is it not just a duplicate? The underlying cause is exactly the same.

Comment 4

[Eugene Savitsky]

bug 1389739 is 1 year old (with no hope to fix) and this one is from version 63.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Eugene Savitsky from comment #4)
> bug 1389739 is 1 year old (with no hope to fix)

It doesn't really matter, we have far older bugs, and there's hope to fix, indeed I suggested a fix multiple times there, someone should just try and make a patch with a testcase.