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[regression] Inconsistencies in behavior of alt and ctrl pertaining to opening new tabs
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mqu...@gmail.com,
Jan 24 2018
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: There are some inconsistencies in the behavior of navigation clicks combined with held-down alt or ctrl keys on Windows. If I recall correctly, going back some (many?) years, this behavior was different and did not exhibit the same behavior. Case 1: alt + enter in address bar: opens address in new tab Case 2: ctrl + enter in address bar: ctrl is ignored Case 3: alt + forward/backward button click: alt is ignored Case 4: ctrl + forward/backward button click: the destination is opened in a new tab Case 5: alt + click on a link: the destination is downloaded Case 6: ctrl + click on a link: the destination is opened in a new tab What is the expected behavior? Greater consistency in the behavior of ctrl/alt act modifiers. There is no rhyme or reason to the current behavior, making it hard to reason about and difficult to get it right (depending on if you're thinking about your action or going off of muscle memory only). One of the two modifiers should be associated with "open in new tab" and the other can perform whatever other action (or none) is available. Given that the most "famous" feature is opening in a new tab via ctrl+click (mainly due to the lack of middle mouse button on laptops prior to the rise of multitouch gestures that made two/three-finger tap possible), most likely `ctrl` should be the "new tab modifier" key, in which case the following results would be expected: Case 1: alt + enter in address bar: alt is ignored (or download url for consistency, but that would be a separate feature request and a different debate altogether) Case 2: ctrl + enter in address bar: open link in new tab Case 3: alt + forward/backward button: alt is ignored Case 4: ctrl + forward/backward button: the destination is opened in a new tab Case 5: alt + click on a link: the link is downloaded Case 6: ctrl + click on a link: the link is opened in a new tab What went wrong? Case 1 and Case 2 Did this work before? Yes Unknown Chrome version: 63.0.3239.132 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version:
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Feb 15 2018
Thanks for filing the issue! Checked the issue on reported chrome version 63.0.3239.132 and on the latest stable 64.0.3282.140 using windows with the below mentioned steps. 1. Launched Chrome 2. Clicked on address bar 3. Clicked alt + enter-> it opened the same page in a new tab 4. Clicked ctrl + enter-> Page reloaded. @Reporter: As per your comment#0 case 2 which says chrome ignores ctrl upon clicking ctrl + enter, but here we observed the page loaded/refreshed. It would be highly helpful if given a clarity on this.
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Mar 8 2018
@vamshi: yes, the ctrl is ignored as in if ctrl is pressed or not, the effect is the same.
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Mar 8 2018
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding the requester to the cc list. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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May 17 2018
As per comment #3 Ctrl is ignored and if Ctrl+Ener is pressed observed the page gets reloaded as same like in the comment #2.We have observed the page loaded/refreshed. @Reporter: Could you please verify on latest chrome stable 66.0.3359.181 and let us know whether issue still persists/Not.
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Nov 23
As there isn't any Feedback from reporter since long time, closing this issue and marking it as Won't Fix. @Reporter: Requesting you to file/raise a new issue if this happens in latest chrome versions. Thanks! |
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Comment 1 by susanjun...@techmahindra.com
, Jan 25 2018