Comment 171 for bug 66566

(In reply to cousteau from comment #163)

> I don't see how removing shift-enter and ctrl-shift-enter is even remotely related to the original request of making ctrl-enter open URLs in a new tab.

The point of the bug as filed was to make link opening modifiers work the same between the url bar and other usecases. That applies to shift and ctrl-shift as much as it does to just ctrl.

> Personally, if this feature were really necessary (in which case it should have been opened as a separate bug), I would rather have it moved to an unused combination. For example, Windows-enter could be "open in new window" and Windows-alt-enter for "open in new tab, but on the background".

We don't use any windows+<whatever> shortcuts inside Firefox and doing so would be going against platform convention, which we wouldn't do without very good reasons, so this is a non-starter.

> Ultimately, removing the shortcut for .net and .org but keeping it for .com somehow suggests that .net and .org sites are "less important" than .com ones. I could expect that from a browser developed by google.com or microsoft.com, but not from one developed by mozilla.org.

In the global alexa top 50 there is 1 .org site (wikipedia), 1 .net site (a Chinese site), and 48 .com sites, and so .com sites are pretty conclusively more commonly used. Not to mention the fact that, if for whatever reason .net (or any other suffix) is more common in your own browsing habits, you can configure the default suffix in about:config (both before and after this change), and it was never possible to configure the suffix for shift-enter and ctrl-shift-enter.

I'm going to restrict comments here. The recent history of comments is just repeated complaints that reiterate ground that has already been covered, and as such isn't productive anymore. To reiterate:

- we won't (add a pref to) revert this behavior change. See comment #143. There are always trade-offs when making changes to frequently-used parts of the browser like the URL bar. We considered these trade-offs carefully before making the change. That doesn't mean we believe there are no negative side-effects, or that we don't regret people having to retrain muscle memory - it means we made the change despite those side-effects, because we believe the upsides outweigh those negative side-effects.
- yes, there's remaining ground to cover in terms of fixing up shortcuts to be even more consistent with other browsers and/or with other uses of modifier keys within Firefox. See bug 1513830, bug 1506203, bug 1506247 . If there's other inconsistencies that got missed, please file separate follow-up bugs.
- you can already change the default completion for ctrl-enter to something else in about:config using browser.fixup.alternate.suffix , if that's preferable over .com .
- there are extant bugs on file for improving webextension control over shortcuts via bug 1215061 and deps.