249189 - Ctrl+Enter in search bar to open new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177498

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

The builtin search bar doesn't open the results in the current browser tab when
you hit Enter. It would be nice if you hit Ctrl+Enter that it opens it in a new tab

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't know if it the modifier for opening a new tab for a search should be
Ctrl (like almost everything else), Alt (like the address bar, which is
different so Ctrl+enter can add www. and .com like IE), or both.

Comment 2

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't know if it the modifier for opening a new tab for a search should be
> Ctrl (like almost everything else), Alt (like the address bar, which is
> different so Ctrl+enter can add www. and .com like IE), or both.
Control click on a link opens a new tab and also the googlebar uses the same key
combo. So my vote remains Ctrl

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Alt-Enter already does this, which is consistent with the URL bar and will not
be changed.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177498 ***