Change Firefox to launch New Tab when Enter used to accept new web address

Add-ons Development
#1

Default behaviour of FF is to launch New Tab is address bar content is accepted using [Alt]+[Enter], and to navigate within the existing tab if said address is accepted using [Enter]

I would like to create a new add-on (WebExtension) which would reverse this behaviour.

Can someone indicate 1.> if this is possible. 2.> Which approach / API I should look into.

Thanks very much for any help.

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#2

As far as I know that is currently not possible. You could, however add a keyword that you’d write before an url to open it in a new tab, though depending on your flow that’s not really better than using Alt+Enter (using <kbd> html elements to make fancy keys!).

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