Hi there, this is interesting and we can certainly investigate. We would have to make sure the shortcut doesn't conflict with other browser or OS shortcuts. In the meantime, we filed a bug to enable Alt + Up/Down for keyboard navigation and you can t...
I can't speak for whether beforehand you could type "e" + tab to search, but if you made the shortcut "@e" with the new updates you can type "@e" + tab and that will activate the search mode. Otherwise, e+space would work too.
If you want to disable search persistence, you can go to about:preferences#search and in that first section labeled "Default Search Engine" there is a checkbox with the label "Show search terms in the address bar on results page".Uncheck that checkbo...
