[Bug 66566]

[Gazzawazza-l]

As a lowly user (not dev), please can we have some kind of option
regarding ALT+ENTER behaviour? And to summarise my following comments,
options for behaviour for CTRL+ENTER too? It could be just set in
about:config, depending on how popular the alternative behaviours are.
For example, CTRL+ENTER autocomplete vs open address in new tab.

I personally don't use ALT+ENTER for generating a URL in a new tab. In
fact, I can't explain why but I've only just noticed its new tab
behaviour literally today. For example, I use tab mix plus to generate
duplicate pages with history when I need a new tab (using CTRL+T),
except with links, when CTRL+mouseclick works very nicely. I do
appreciate that users develop habits and look for flexibility in usage
between keyboard and mouse actions, so if ALT+ENTER is good for someone,
then that's what they like and why should they change. Having said that,
I haven't ever used ALT+ENTER for that functionality.

I actually use ALT+ENTER with an extension called URL suffix (lovely,
practical add-on IMO), which allows additional keystroke combos (beyond
CTRL+ENTER) to generate additional URL prefixes & suffixes. I've
configured ALT+ENTER to add a www. and .co.uk to a URL. This 'open
address in a new tab' honestly never used to occur (for me), so I sense
something may have changed or has been updated in firefox, relatively
recently, given I do use these keyboard shortcuts for autocompletion.
I've found some references to loss of this behaviour when using tab mix
plus. Most posts are ancient but there was an isolated report in Nov
2015, involving a beta of FF 43. Anyway, ALT+ENTER and firefox led me
here.

I do agree with one contributor that one can't just bung in an option
every time there's a conflict but when one's talking about keystrokes
(both ALT+ENTER and CTRL+ENTER) which directly affect daily
tasks/usability, perhaps there's an argument for considering support for
alternatives. Standardisation is generally speaking good but we've got
usage differences across browsers and platforms, which I can't see being
harmonised easily and, depending on the solution, I would have thought
we're not talking about much in the way of code changes, if we just
added some choices in about:config. Sorry if I'm talking nonsense though
- I'm not a coder.


Regards,

Gary

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