223637 - alt+enter does not open a new tab when selecting a link using type ahead find

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robin Whittleton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031014 Firebird/0.7+ (aebrahim)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031014 Firebird/0.7+ (aebrahim)

My mouse died so I'm resorting to browsing using a keyboard. Type-ahead find is
very useful in this situation, but annoyingly although I can open links using
enter I can't open links in a new tab using alt+enter. Seeing as alt+enter is
the standard for opening addresses in a new tab from the address bar it seems
like a natural progression to add it to type-ahead find.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org
2. Type 'Best of 2003'
3. Hit alt+enter

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Opened 'http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,110653,pg,11,00.asp' in a
new tab.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

use Ctrl-Enter

see bug 213816 (the attachments, specifically) on the project owner's views on
the subject.  Personally, I disagree, but UI is like that, everyone think's
their point of view is right. :)