Option to Open a URL / Search Results in a New Tab from the Address Bar with "Enter"
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@maxtao Progress on features is not reported. Release of features is reported. As a general rule, if work is begun on a feature, then BAM - it appears in a Snapshot release within a week or two. So there is not a period of time of weeks, months, years wherein a feature is being developed and getting closer and closer to release, unless it is a major, browser-sized project - like sync or mail. These can take years.
Further, the developers do not release, in fact do not even have, a list of features in order of priority, stating "as soon as we finish this one, we will begin on that one." Rather, as certain aspects of the browser are refined, the result makes it obvious that feature (a) is both popular and doable, and it gets done. There is no way to predict this.
So, sadly, the answer to "Any news?" will always be "No." And then, one day, it will show up in a snapshot, with no prior "news" having been reported. That's just how it works.
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Yes, please. I keep losing work because my searches open in the same tab, instead of in a new tab, as my fingers expect them to.
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is this been worked on? it's really starting to get on my nerves not having that option.
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@sallyk Although one can sometimes lose entries on forms that reload automatically, in most cases, as on this forum, one can do the search, then simply use GestureLeft (Back) to return where one left off. I find this more efficient than opening new tabs every time.
On this forum especially, the typed message remains on screen when I search for Address Bar from the URL to find related feature requests.
I was the first to upvote this feature request, but we might be waiting for a while as there are easy workarounds. There are currently about 880 feature requests. If we are lucky, we get about five implemented each month. Do the Maths.
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@pesala Unfortunately, I'm often doing a search to find a link to put in a post somewhere, and usually lose my work when the tab is over-written. Going back doesn't help because what I've entered already is gone.
It's fair enough that there are plenty of other things to work on - clearly it's not something that matters to a lot of users. I'll still be very happy on the day they make it work like it's supposed to.
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An idea:
Option to open url that different from current page in a New Tab. -
@pesala said in Option to Open a URL / Search Results in a New Tab from the Address Bar with "Enter":
@ysul0614 That would be an improvement.
However, there is already an option to do this from the Quick Commands dialogue, so press F2 instead of F8, paste the URL and press Enter.
That opens the URL in the same tab, not a new one.
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@terere See settings Quick Commands. Enable "Open Pages in new tab."
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@pesala , that option is not really much different from pressing Alt+Enter or Shift+Enter. You still must press 2 keys. Just add the option to "Always Open Address Bar in new Tab". This feature used to be available on a Firefox Add-on called Tab Mix Plus which is no longer available on Firefox. That's why I switched to Vivaldi because some of the Tab Mix features are built in. Just missing this one.
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I'm in the same boat. It would be great if an "Always" option could be added to the "Open Address in New Tab" setting.
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@rgcon0809 said in Option to Open a URL / Search Results in a New Tab from the Address Bar with "Enter":
@pesala , that option is not really much different from pressing Alt+Enter or Shift+Enter. You still must press 2 keys. Just add the option to "Always Open Address Bar in new Tab". This feature used to be available on a Firefox Add-on called Tab Mix Plus which is no longer available on Firefox. That's why I switched to Vivaldi because some of the Tab Mix features are built in. Just missing this one.
Now it is possible in Firefox Quantum https://techdows.com/2018/02/firefox-always-open-url-bar-results-new-tab.html
But still waiting on Vivaldi.. Firefox now is slower..
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I'm also waiting for this for a long time since when I switched from Firefox+TabMixPlus to Vivaldi
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@Gwen-Dragon Sure, Alt + Enter does the trick, but these two keys are far from each other and require both hands.
Another function induced by TabMixPlus was to open a new tab if we typed a URL from another domain in the address bar.
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@GruntZ Try Shift+Enter — they are adjacent to each other.
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Looking forward this feature , as it's musle memory for years.
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vivaldi://settings/addressbar/
set it to use shift+enter, it's SO simple. -
Hmmm 1 year later and not much movement.
@pglu said in Option to Open a URL / Search Results in a New Tab from the Address Bar with "Enter":
In "Tools -> Settings -> Address Bar -> Open Address Bar in New Tab" there are: two options :"Alt + Enter" and "Shift + Enter". It's enough to add the third one "Enter".
Curious to know this isn't something that can't be quickly added. Same code as the other two options, just remove the part referring to Shift or Alt?
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@7twenty I would expect it to be easy to fix. After all, it just needs a new radio box, and there would be no need to change the default setting that might annoy those of us who are used to, and prefer, the current behaviour.
What has changed in the last year is that the number of feature requests has more than doubled from 880 to 1,790 in the last 11 months. I doubt if the team of developers has increased as much in the same time.
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@Pesala said in Option to Open a URL / Search Results in a New Tab from the Address Bar with "Enter":
What has changed in the last year is that the number of feature requests has more than doubled from 880 to 1,790 in the last 11 months. I doubt if the team of developers has increased as much in the same time.
i've always wondered how dev's schedule their time when working on things. In my head i'm thinking every few months they'd allocate 1 week and just work on little "quick easy to fix jobs". That way they can tick off a decent number of small tasks that move things along while not taking too much time out of doing other tasks that are deemed more important. But it seems that's not the case.
Just out of curiosity, is this something that someone can poke around with and do themselves, or is there more that needs to be looked at outside of the user accessible settings CSS and JS(?) for the logic?
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@7twenty No, I don't think it is something that one could do oneself.