[Stormchild]

Fair enough. As an alternative suggestion, then, the search field should support pressing Command-Return to open the search results in a new tab.

And on a similar note, Option-Return in the address bar should download the file at the given URI instead of opening it in the window (in keeping with the fact that one can Option-click a link to download it). Currently the only way to do it is to use the File > Open Location command, then choose "Downloads Window" from a drop-down menu (which doesn't remember your most recent setting, so this always involves several steps).