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What is intended behavior for EnterSelects? #83

Closed e-t-l closed 3 years ago

e-t-l commented 3 years ago

I installed EnterSelects, followed all instructions exactly, but as far as I can tell there's no change in behavior. What exactly is it supposed to do or look like? Should it in-line autofill the first drop-down result?

xiaoxiaoflood commented 3 years ago

No, it doesn't autofill anything. It just pre-selects the first suggestion, so that if you press Enter Firefox will load it.

What Enter Selects does, basically, is to skip the needing to press down arrow key (↓) to select the first result.

Because Firefox autofill is domain-only, so often the page you want to load is not the one auto-filled BUT it's the first suggestion.

For instance... How do I open this repo? I just type "xi" and press Enter: image