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@ukanuk
I want opening history, bookmark, quick search, etc. entries to work alike. My preference is to open a new tab by default. That's safer: I won't lose anything, including context, from the current page. However, there are times I'd be fine with replacing the current tab's contents. The address bar seems different to me. I'd like it to open in the current tab by default because if there's already a page in the current tab (other than the new tab content), what one types replaces the current URL, so it seems reasonable that the new content would replace the current content.
Since you want current tab to be the default for everything, our goals are different, but I think Vivaldi can make that work. What if each thing that can open new content had an option controlling whether it used the current tab or a new tab by default, and what if there was a standard keyboard shortcut for the default and for inverting the default? Then, you can choose to have everything open in the current tab by default, which Enter and a mouse click would do, or in a new tab with, say, Alt+Enter and Alt+click. I could select different defaults, for the address bar versus the other things, and still get my default action with Enter and a mouse click, and invert those with the modifier. Vivaldi could go even further to allow us to select our preferred "default inversion" modifier: Alt, Ctrl, or Shift.
If Vivaldi use that approach for everything, the UX would be consistent across the product and yet users would have the flexibility they crave.
