2026230 - Shift-Enter on empty search no longer opens search engine Firefox 149

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P1)

Description

[Tony Priborsky]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

Steps to reproduce:

I always enter the Google search site by using SHIFT+ENTER on the search bar. It is the only way to get to the Google menu at the upper right (3x3 square dots) so I can get to Maps, etc...

it used to be just ENTER then 128 took that away. User feedback restored the behaviour using SHIFT+ENTER and various other combinations. (ALT+ENTER opened a new window?)

With 149 all are gone.Fe

Actual results:

Feature / User Interface taken away.

Expected results:

The search site should be opened.

Comment 1

[Moritz Beier [:mbeier]]

Attachment: Bug 2026230 - Open search engine home page on enter if searchbar is empty. r?dao

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/08b0bf6bc3c0
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/717f28c4b756
Open search engine home page on enter if searchbar is empty. r=dao,urlbar-reviewers

Comment 3

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/717f28c4b756

Comment 4

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/717f28c4b756

Comment 5

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Reproducible on a 2026-03-25 Firefox Nightly build on Windows 10.

Verified as fixed on Firefox Nightly 152.0a1 and Firefox 151.0b2 on Windows 10, Ubuntu 22, macOS 15.