1953950 - Shortcut to Open search in new tab on MacOS : cmd+return doesn’t work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1949999

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[hello]

Steps to reproduce:

When I use the search box, using cmd+return shortcut doesn’t open the search in a new tab.
Firefox 136 on MacOS

Actual results:

Open the search in the same tab

Expected results:

Open the search in a new tab

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

[jerry.bonner]

I'm seeing this behavior as well on 136.0.2 on Mac Sequoia 15.3.1. It seems to have switched to Option + Enter which is very annoying.

Comment 3

[jerry.bonner]

This bug should be closed. Release notes indicate this is an expected behavior change:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/

Due to recent changes in macOS Sequoia, the shortcut for completing search strings to .com addresses has been changed from Ctrl+Enter to Cmd+Enter.

Adjusting this configuration may be an option:

about:config
browser.urlbar.ctrlCanonizesURLs = false

Comment 4

[Miroslav Knežević]

(In reply to jerry.bonner from comment #3)

This bug should be closed. Release notes indicate this is an expected behavior change:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/

Due to recent changes in macOS Sequoia, the shortcut for completing search strings to .com addresses has been changed from Ctrl+Enter to Cmd+Enter.

Adjusting this configuration may be an option:

about:config
browser.urlbar.ctrlCanonizesURLs = false

That works, thanks!

Comment 5

[Ionuț G. Stan]

I think there's a regression here nevertheless.

I used to use the CMD+ENTER shortcut to duplicate the current page in a new tab (focus the address bar using CMD+L, hit CMD+ENTER to have a new tab open with the same address). This still works now, but I have to hit CMD+ENTER twice: I focus the address bar, hit CMD+ENTER a first time, which reloads the page but keeps the address bar focused, hit CMD+ENTER a second time and the page gets duplicated in a new tab. This won't work if you switch tabs between the two CMD+ENTER actions (say using CMD+SHIFT+[ or CMD+SHIFT+]).

Disabling browser.urlbar.ctrlCanonizesURLs indeed brings back the old behavior, but what I was doing has (in theory) nothing to do with canonizing URLs.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:mak, could you have a look please?

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