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How do we restore the keyboard shortcuts to add www and .net/.org to queries typed in the address bar?

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The shortcuts from Mozilla's support site (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly#w_miscellaneous_3) to add www and .net/.org to address bar queries do not work properly anymore. Is there a way to restore these shortcuts?

The shortcuts from Mozilla's support site (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly#w_miscellaneous_3) to add www and .net/.org to address bar queries do not work properly anymore. Is there a way to restore these shortcuts?

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Anything useful here?

  • bug 237027 - Use ctrl-enter for URL canonization on all platform, and offer an opt-out for Windows/Linux users where it interferes with opening URLs in (background) tabs
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Seems like there have already been some concerns raised about these shortcuts going away. Unfortunately, it looks like the developers are reluctant to add it back https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237027#c122

The argument that no other browser does this behavior was kind of a reason why I preferred to use Firefox, sadly