1513830 - Cmd-Enter in the address bar should open new links in background tabs on macOS

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Anthony Ramine [:nox]]

That's what this keyboard shortcut does in both Safari and Chrome on macOS.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Thanks, we should look into it and be coherent with the other browsers.

Comment 2

[alexander.kern]

I already covered that in this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506203

I guess you could say this issue here blocks my issue, but I think it's more useful to do everything at once. My guess is that it's not much difference in the amount of work to do all at once. :Gijs mentioned a link where to get started if someone wants to take it on the other issue.

Comment 3

[avada]

Any good reason this should be OS specific? That is what I would expect on windows with "browser.tabs.loadInBackground" true, at least.

Comment 4

[Anthony Ramine [:nox]]

Any news on this? It's really unfortunate that we had to wait more than a decade for the behaviour of cmd-enter to be closer to Safari, and we are still not aligned with its conventions.

Comment 5

[Anthony Ramine [:nox]]

The more time we wait to reverse the two keyboard shortcuts, the more people get accustomed to the wrong ones. This should have a higher priority.

Comment 7

[Rochelle Nichols]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from relepotu1979.