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OS: Linux , Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Windows+Enter should open omnibox suggestions in a new background tab

Reported by jeffreyc...@gmail.com, Oct 23

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Type something in Omnibox
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
Open search query or URL in new tab, in the background (keeping current tab in focus)

What went wrong?
I cannot find such a way on Windows. Works on Mac.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.67  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10
Flash Version:
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M70
Cc: phanindra.mandapaka@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET Target-72 M-72 FoundIn-71 FoundIn-70 FoundIn-72 OS-Linux Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
demonstar55@ Thanks for the issue.

As per the above description, this looks like a feature request to keeping current tab in focus.
Marking this as Untriaged for further updates from Dev and adding appropriate labels to it.

Thanks..!
Components: -UI UI>Browser>Omnibox
Owner: jdonnelly@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Note that one way to do this is with a middle-click with a mouse. But it should also be possible to do this via keyboard with Windows-enter. I'll investigate why this isn't happening.
Summary: Windows+Enter should open omnibox suggestions in a new background tab (was: Is there an equivalent of Cmd+Enter on Windows to open in a new background tab?)
Would Alt+Shift+Enter be a better shortcut? Like the Mac shortcut, but the behaviours for foreground and background are flipped. Having it on a Windows key makes it so that there is an additional modifier key to remember: Ctrl, Alt, Win, each with different behaviours.
@3: Why would a user expect win+enter to do this?  Aren't win+<...> shortcuts usually supposed to be reserved for the OS?

If we didn't have the stupid historical "add .com" behavior on ctrl-enter, that'd be the obvious thing to pick.  As it is... I would either change that anyway (is this useful anymore?) or else follow comment 5 and use alt-shift-enter.

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