Comment 133 for bug 66566

(In reply to alexander.kern from comment #125)
> (Yeah, but not using the URL bar is just not as nice. For example look &
> feel, use search & bookmarks keywords, afaik.)

Yep... perhaps there's room for webextensions to have a larger scope for interaction with the URL bar - you could file a bug in the webextensions product.

> Ah thanks, I missed the mention of that pref! Well I'd rather have it not be
> consistent, but I understand your reasoning and gave my opinion.

Likewise! It's a tricky problem - I was joking on IRC the other day that really we need like 10 modifier keys instead of just 3, then it wouldn't be so hard to come up with a way to make things not conflict...

> Still, should the combinations not stack like ctrl+shift canonize and open
> in new window? alt+ctrl does already stack as expected (canonize and open
> new tab). Why does only that stack? And alt+shift to open in new background
> tab would be incredibly useful for users who don't want to mess with
> about:config or don't know about it. They can just find it by trying it out
> or understanding how stacking should work.
>
> Anyway this is a followup issue and you said you wanted this bug to be
> closed, so if I don't hear back soon I'll submit a new ticket. Thanks!

Yes, please submit a new bug for alt-shift / ctrl-shift. :-)