1919150 - Alt+Enter in search bar opens in current tab (instead of new tab)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[merfius]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Steps to reproduce:

Type something into the search bar and hit Alt+Enter

Actual results:

Search results open in current tab, overriding current tab contents

Expected results:

Alt+Enter: results should open in a new tab
(Enter alone should open in current tab)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) (PTO Dec 22 - Jan 2)]

Hi merfius,

By "search bar", do you mean the URL bar, or do you mean the dedicated search input? that can exist alongside the URL bar?

Comment 3

[merfius]

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) from comment #2)

Hi merfius,

By "search bar", do you mean the URL bar, or do you mean the dedicated search input? that can exist alongside the URL bar?

The dedicated search bar.

I believe this is new behavior. Alt+Enter used to open in a new tab, which would be consistent with URLbar behavior.

Comment 4

[Chris Bellini (:cbellini)]

Is this issue being seen when the new tab page (or about:blank) is displayed, or instead when the current tab is displaying an already-loaded page?

Comment 5

[merfius]

(In reply to Chris Bellini (:cbellini) from comment #4)

Is this issue being seen when the new tab page (or about:blank) is displayed, or instead when the current tab is displaying an already-loaded page?

The latter.

Comment 6

[merfius]

Oops, browser.search.openintab was set to true. Thanks all!