Andreas Leuner Reporter
	Description • 22 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

in the preferences I have chosen that when hitting CTRL+ENTER in the URL bar a
new tab should be opened. It would be nice if the same happened when hitting
CTRL+ENTER in the history drop down list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have several items in your history list
2.open the history list (click on the arrow - you get the point :-)
3.Press CTRL+ENTER on an highlighted entry


Actual Results:  
Now that link is loaded in the same tab

Expected Results:  
It could have opened another tab.

	R.K.Aa.
	Comment 1 • 22 years ago

related: bug 164008

	Robb Tolliver
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

it opens in a new window for me (maybe because i'm using multizilla)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1; MultiZilla v1.1.32 final)
Gecko/20021130

	Andreas Leuner Reporter
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

I checked again - now with MultiZilla v1.1.32. In the preferences there's the
option "MultiZilla ->Links ->Open new Tabs for ->Location Bar". If it is
checked, a new tab is opened everytime you go to a new address via the location
bar. No matter if you press CTRL+Enter or just Enter and no matter if you type
the URL or choose it from the history drop down list.
What I complained about, was that w/o MultiZilla (or w/o that option) Mozilla
would open a new tab if you pressed CTRL+Enter in the URL bar but not if you
pressed CTRL+Enter in the history drop down list. I believe this behavior to be
inconsistent.
Looking a into Navigator ->Tabbed Browsing I see two options regarding the CTRL key:
Open new Tab at
1. Middle click or CTRL+click on a link on a webpage
2. CTRL+Enter in Location Bar
This leaves several possible options out: middle click or CTRL+Enter in the
history list could also open a new tab.

I think the following options would be better:
Open new tab for opening a URL
1. if CTRL is held down 
2. if MMB is pressed

That would appeal better to me ;-)

	Andreas Leuner Reporter
	Comment 4 • 22 years ago

It looks like the whole thing is because the history list is either unable to
distinguish a CTRL+Enter / Enter or middle click / left click; or there is just
the same action implemented for all these events.
If this is correct, this bug report would not only be related, but be a
duplicate of bug 164008.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164008 ***