[Bug 66566]

[Gijskruitbosch+bugs]

(In reply to smmalis37 from comment #150)
> > What happened so shift+enter and ctrl+shift+enter?
> > Up to know shift+enter did .net and ctrl+shift+enter did .org.. now it does
> > open a new window or simply use .com.
> 
> I've been a Firefox user for years now. I use these keyboard shortcuts
> daily. net and org are still extremely common TLDs, even with others
> becoming more common. This change is annoying enough for me to seriously
> consider downgrading to 63. I ask the Firefox team to please consider
> reverting this change until there is a way for this functionality to be
> supported by an extension.

I don't see this happening. Consistency both with other browsers and
other shortcuts trumps the need for alternative domain autocompleting
(and really, without the other browsers it would probably have trumped
.com autocomplete, too).

I'm also really quite confused by the .net / .org case - do you turn off
autocomplete and/or history (in the location bar), or something? Why
can't you just hit "normal" enter when the domain you want gets
autocompleted? Do you just visit new .net/.org domains (where you
somehow do know the exact TLD you want, so you don't use a search
engine, but you have never visited before) every day? That seems like a
very niche usecase...

In terms of add-ons, it'd be pretty trivial to write an add-on that just
provided you a toolbar button that, when clicked (or activated via a new
shortcut of the add-on's choosing), provided an alternative input, where
you could type anything and it'd just suffix '.net' or '.org' and
navigate the current URL to it. I accept that's quite kludgy, but if you
really can't use autocomplete / history for this and are annoyed at
typing '.net' or '.org' after URLs, I think that might currently be your
best option.

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  Inconsistent shortcuts for new tab

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