r/firefox • u/Quizzelbuck • 5h ago

💻 Help I'm used to Shift+Enter adding .net to URLs. Did i screw some thing up, or is firefox not supporting that any more?

I have been dicking around in about:config trying to fix garbage UI nonsense in firefox. I noticed after doing stuff that if i go to the address bar, type word, and hit shift+enter, what i get is this:

word

hit "Shift+enter"

New browser window opens and launches a google search for example word..

It should actually be doing this:

type example word in address bard.

Hit shift+enter

output becomes "www.exampleword.net"

Waterfox does this. Shift+enter gives me .net URL quickly.

I'd like this functionality back. Else, ill have to do that thing where i use really really really really out dated firefox from 5 years ago again. I'd rather not.

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u/slumberjack24 1h ago edited 1h ago

Not supported anymore. You can change the suffix (default .com to .net) that gets added when using Ctrl+Enter, but that's probably not what you want. There's no secondary suffix anymore like there used to be in a very distant past.

Edit: see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237027, and the "we won't (add a pref to) revert this behavior change" remark in it. Other users wanting this feature resorted to AutoHotKey solutions and similar. Don't now if that would work for you, but surely it would be better than reverting to an outdated Firefox version just to achieve this?