278123 - ctrl-enter std key binding for urlbar seems a design bug

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Frank]

To open an new tab the std prefix is the ctrl-key (ctrl-t, ctrl-click). But to
open a new tab from urlbar the prefix is the alt-key (alt-enter). This conficts
also with the std key binding of Mozilla Browser (I'm using 1.7.3) where the
prefix is the ctrl-key (ctrl-enter).

If there is no possibility (or no lobby) to change the std key binding of the
ctrl-enter key to "open new tab from urlbar", I stronly request a configuration
switch placed at about:config, switching alt-(shift-)enter with
ctrl-(shift-)enter (and vice versa).

Thanks for taking such a chance seriously into account.

Frank

I have searched the web, but I don't find a configuration possibility for
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108
Firefox/1.0", but it seems to be a general problem of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is by design, in the future we'll have dynamic keybinding sets and you can
do whatever you want, but there won't be a pref for just this.