Comment 158 for bug 66566

(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.