I’m not sure if qualifies as a real bug and not just a feature, but I’ve been having the problem described by the title for quite a while now: sometimes when I’m typing something in a web page, such as a new e-mail message in Gmail, pressing enter suddenly opens up a new tab with a Google search, with search terms picked up from the tab where I was typing.<\/p>\n
Now, I know that Google, respectably, hasn’t been as cooperative in giving up their search data to government officials<\/a> as other search engine companies have, but still, I wouldn’t trust them with the contents of my e-mail messages like this every now and then. So I’ve tried some tweaks to try and stop this behavior.<\/p>\n I first adjusted the settings of Paste And Go 2<\/a>, which is always the first extension I install right after I’ve installed Firefox. From the Then, in about:config<\/a>, I set keyword.enabled<\/a> to false<\/b>. I generally dislike any guesswork being done by applications for me and prefer that they just fail when I fail to communicate my intentions properly (I guess that’s pretty oldskool<\/a> thinking nowadays, or at least that’s what I’d like to think), so this setting suits me better anyway than the default (which seems to be true<\/b>).<\/p>\n I’m writing these down here and try to keep an eye out on whether the problem persists, and report back if these seem to have solved it.<\/p>\n Next day<\/ins>: My suspicions of Paste And Go 2 being the culprit were heightened, since I discovered that after the abovementioned changes I could no longer access about:config, nor use enter as a hotkey for “Submit” on pages (such as Google – so that I had to select “Search” using my mouse to actually make the query), as pressing enter had become synonymous for the “Paste And Go” function. After disabling P&G2 I could again access about:config, and so also it seems after changing both keyboard shortcuts to [all meta keys] + \u00a7.<\/p>\nInterface<\/q> tab, I disabled
Enable Paste and Search by click search engines button with middle mouse button<\/q>. Then, on the
Keyboard Shortcuts<\/q> tab, I unchecked all keys and wiped the key field clean, so that in effect, P&G2 now has no keyboard shortcuts. This doesn’t matter to me as I never use them anyway.<\/p>\n