Keyboard shortcut to focus address bar?

rickhev1

I was unable to reply to the archived version of this post, but I wanted to observe that pressing F6 once or twice usually focuses the address bar.

Pathduck

@rickhev1 Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

The defaults are F8 or Ctrl+L
I don't know why Vivaldi has such strange defaults, but it's easy to set your own.
Personally I prefer to use Alt+D like every other browser so that's what I've set.
F6/Shift+F6 is "Focus next/previous pane" but works I guess even though it's a bit circumvent method of achieving it. It's usually used for cycling input focus through the UI panes.

sgunhouse

@Pathduck Why F8? From Presto, of course. F7 was Focus panel, F8 focus address field, Shift-F8 focus search field, and F9 was focus page.

Pathduck

@sgunhouse Yes, I believe it's been discussed several times on the forum. Apparently they didn't use Alt+D for Vivaldi because it caused problems for some locales (German?) where it would open the menu instead - i.e. German "Datei" for the "File" menu. Something like that.

Sounds like a pretty bad excuse that could surely be worked around with some locale-specific code, or surely the Germans could live with having Alt+A for the "Datei" menu?

I have Opera 12.18 installed (for nostalgic reasons) and Alt+D is mapped to focus the address field. Unless one chooses the "Opera 9.2 Compatible" setup. I imagine this caused much consternation and drama at the time

I have no big problem with the weird default hotkeys though, just slightly annoying to have to set it properly every time I make a clean profile for testing something...