Closed Bug 1524402 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Ctrl+E replaces contents of URL bar with "? " (question mark plus space)

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
65 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1524016

People

(Reporter: mozilla.org, Unassigned)

Details

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

Steps to reproduce:

In a new or existing tab, press Ctrl+E.

Actual results:

If the URL bar is empty, it is populated with "? " and the cursor placed after the space. If the URL bar contains a URL or other text, the text is replaced by "? " and the cursor again placed after the space.

Expected results:

If there are contents in the URL bar, they should be selected and given focus, otherwise the cursor should be placed in the URL bar but the bar left empty. "? " only seems to force searching, i.e. it prevents suggestions from the user's browsing history, a useful functionality that Firefox is famous for.

This is a regression compared to Firefox 64 and prior versions. Settings that may be relevant to this behaviour: browser.search.suggest.enabled=false, browser.urlbar.suggest.searches=false.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

I have experienced similar behavior but with different key combinations.

To reproduce:
Open a new tab.
Press ctrl-j or ctrl-k
If there is a web address in the status bar:
1)The status bar will clear
2)A '?' following by a space will appear.

Blocks: 1315509
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 1315509
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