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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Ctrl+Shift+Ins for the function "Paste and go/search" (as in Opera)

Reported by 5silentr...@gmail.com, Mar 6 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
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What is the expected behavior?
Ctrl+Shift+L for the function "Paste and go/search". Like in Internet Explorer:
http://jpegshare.net/8e/96/8e968a4847f50cfa3ec60773d96adaa8.jpg.html
http://jpegshare.net/57/87/5787e29af8b450da858c3d7ac29daca4.png.html
Article: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/go-to-copied-address-internet-explorer-windows

Opera:
http://jpegshare.net/d7/ca/d7cac727707d1437b5733954839e2848.png.html
http://jpegshare.net/61/07/6107c650bd955bd5811180f316be2382.png.html

and Vivaldi:
http://jpegshare.net/bc/28/bc28191be462dd5a866a16b9a72d33b5.png.html

What went wrong?
Why Chrome doesn't have such a useful feature?
http://jpegshare.net/2c/16/2c16459f90bcdab8a50e73c5b571954d.png.html
http://jpegshare.net/a1/20/a1208a890fe07a62c2e05cd3a7e3a325.png.html

It is very convenient!

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

 
Components: UI>Browser>AppShortcuts
Labels: M-59
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Marking it as Untriaged as it is feature request.

Components: UI>Browser>Omnibox
Labels: -Pri-2 OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac Pri-3
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Summary: Ctrl+Shift+Ins for the function "Paste and go/search" (as in Opera) (was: Ctrl+Shift+L for the function "Paste and go/search" (Like in IE, Opera and Vivaldi))
The browsers above use different shortcuts, as shown in the screenshots.  Vivaldi uses ctrl-shift-v, which is reserved in Chrome as "paste without formatting".  Opera users ctrl-shift-ins, which makes some sense as an alternate to the IBM CUA shift-ins "paste" shortcut on Windows, but I don't know if it would translate to non-Windows.  Ctrl-shift-L as IE/Edge use is basically an alternate "focus address bar" shortcut and makes less abstract sense to me than e.g. ctrl-shift-K (an alternate "focus search bar" shortcut).  It also seems more likely to accidentally trigger (and confuse people).

The other question is whether we want to dedicate a keyboard shortcut to this at all.  Chrome has a lot of shortcuts, and an increasingly high bar for adding new ones.  It's not clear to me that this functionality deserves one when its primary goal was to serve users who didn't want to take their hand off the mouse to hit keyboard shortcuts; at that point it's basically a way of condensing five keys to three.

I would probably weakly support adding this if ctrl-shift-ins makes any sense on other platforms, particularly Mac.
Labels: Hotlist-OmniboxKeyboardShortcuts
 Issue 713868  has been merged into this issue.

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