1515278 - Ctrl+E and Ctrl+K to focus search bar add "? " before caret

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Victor]

Attachment: Window 000155.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

Ctrl+E or Ctrl+K to focus search bar (which is also my address bar)


Actual results:

clears the search bar and adds "? " before caret


Expected results:

select the address

Comment 1

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

I could reproduce this on Mac with Command+K.

Comment 2

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Looks like something related to bug 1315509 and bug 1308931.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

please use the proper shortcuts to select/focus the urlbar, CTRL+L, F6 or ALT+D. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly

CTRL+K and CTRL+E are supposed to start a searching session, and that's why we add the question mark, pretty much transforming the location bar to a search bar.
It would be quite pointless to have 5 different keyboard shortcuts just selecting the urlbar.

Comment 4

[Victor]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] (Away 24 Dec - 2 Jan) from comment #3)
> please use the proper shortcuts to select/focus the urlbar, CTRL+L, F6 or
> ALT+D. See
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-
> tasks-quickly
> 
> CTRL+K and CTRL+E are supposed to start a searching session, and that's why
> we add the question mark, pretty much transforming the location bar to a
> search bar.
> It would be quite pointless to have 5 different keyboard shortcuts just
> selecting the urlbar.

Okay, I will use the proper shortcuts ; this change in behavior just surprised me and I didn't understand why this happened, I experienced it as a bug because I've been using this shortcut for a long time.

Indeed 5 different shortcuts to select the urlbar would be pointless.

Thanks you!

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Yeah I'm sorry, sometimes we have to do breaking changes, when we see a possibility to improve the experience overall.