276641 - Enter new URL in address bar should open new tab automatically

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 268039

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Reeves]

I suggest that you add the following feature to Firefox.  If you go to the
address bar and enter a new URL, it takes your current tab to the new address. I
think it would be very useful to give the user the option to either:

1) Change the current tab to the new address (the way it works now)
OR
2) Open a new tab and take you to the new address

Ideally, this would be an option under the "Tabbed Browsing" section of the
options Advanced menu.

Thank you.

Brian Reeves

Comment 1

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

This function is already available. Just use Alt+Enter to open the URL in a new
tab. Adding a pref to do this by default is not something that will likely be
done. It is however, the subject of bug 268039.

See bug 270117 comment 5 for the reasons.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268039 ***