My Ctrl-Enter Behaviour stopped working right
For ages now I've been taking this method of going to a website.
I'd enter say google and then hit Ctrl-Enter, and it would expand things out to be http://www.google.com and I'd go on my merry way.
However as of TODAY, I've noticed things are different. Ctrl-enter doesn't do that anymore. I'm now landed at a Google search page with google already entered in the search bar.
How do I get it to not do this anymore? Where'd my keyboard shortcut go for this?
Tkx.
Edit: I brain locked and originally posted this as Alt-Enter. I did not mean to do that.
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I had this problem (sort of). I couldn't use alt-enter to open my bookmarks/history in a new tab. But for search, alt-enter worked. Additionally, I couldn't use ^, #, *, etc. to limit the results in the location/awesome bar.
Turns out, an extension (Omnibar) was causing the problem. Disabled it and everything works as it should.
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Alt + Enter will open the link in a new tab. To do a fixup with www.and .com you need to hit Ctr+Enter (Ctrl: .com; Shift: .net; Ctrl+Shift: .org)
You can modify the pref keyword.URL on the about:config page to use a Google Lucky search in Firefox 4.
I knew that. Brain lock why I said alt-center. Ctrl-enter isn't working, either. Just sub ctrl for alt in the msg above.
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I had this problem (sort of). I couldn't use alt-enter to open my bookmarks/history in a new tab. But for search, alt-enter worked. Additionally, I couldn't use ^, #, *, etc. to limit the results in the location/awesome bar.
Turns out, an extension (Omnibar) was causing the problem. Disabled it and everything works as it should.
Same here. Disabled omnibar, and it worked again. Which is weird, as Omnibar hadn't been a problem before a couple of days ago.
Same with me. But within a span of 3 hours. Started browsing and everything worked fine. After 2 hours, alt-enter wasn't working. Weird.
I have the same problem here and have solved it by installing the latest version of ominbar (version No. 0.7.7.20110418, please find at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/versions/). Please notice that this new version has not yet been reviewed but it works well with me. I should thank cbjaxx for sharing this solution.
I had the same problem too on a fresh installation of FF 4.01 with Fxchrome and Omnibar (I have used Chrome for a long time and only came back to FF when I could make the UI a lot like Chrome, but I digress).
The problem for me was solved because I also installed the optional Omnibar Plus add-on. Typing CTRL-ENTER on a typed <string> would only take me to a Google search result if that string, instead of www.<string>.com as expected. Disabling or removing Omnibar Plus fixed the problem completely.
To be clear, the problem is not Omnibar, but the optional Omnibar Plus.