Add a setting for in-app browser annotation Enter behavior

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened May 19, 2026 by GeeSeeker Closed May 19, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What is the feature request?

Please add a Codex app setting to customize the Enter-key behavior for in-app browser comments/annotations.

This follows #22719, where the immediate-send behavior was clarified as intentional. The request here is not only to revert the default, but to make the behavior configurable.

Current behavior

In the in-app browser annotation editor:

  • Enter sends the current browser comment immediately to the conversation.
  • Cmd+Enter commits/saves the current annotation and allows continuing to add more annotations before sending the final message.

For users whose main chat composer is configured to use Cmd+Enter to send, this creates an inverted shortcut model inside the same app:

  • Main chat composer: Cmd+Enter = send.
  • Browser annotation editor: Enter = send, Cmd+Enter = keep batching annotations.

That is hard to build muscle memory around.

Why this matters

A common workflow is to review a page, leave multiple precise annotations on different UI elements, and then send them as one batch to the agent. The new default makes this workflow more error-prone because a single Enter sends prematurely and exits the annotation collection flow.

At the same time, some users may prefer the new immediate-send behavior. That is exactly why this should be a user preference rather than a single fixed behavior.

Suggested setting

Add a setting such as:

In-app browser annotation Enter behavior

Options:

  1. Enter sends immediately
  2. Enter saves annotation / Cmd+Enter sends final message

Or phrase it around “single-comment mode” vs “batch annotation mode”.

The important part is that users who rely on multi-annotation batching can restore the previous workflow, while users who prefer immediate sending can keep the new default.

Environment

  • Codex desktop app on macOS
  • Observed after updating to 26.513.31313 / build 2867

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #22719

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GeeSeeker · 3 months ago

One clarification: the main chat composer send shortcut is already configurable by the user. In my setup it is configured as Cmd+Enter to send.

The UX gap is that the in-app browser annotation editor does not appear to follow that configurable composer behavior, nor does it provide its own equivalent setting. So the request is really about settings parity/consistency: users can customize the main composer send shortcut, but cannot customize the browser annotation Enter behavior, even though both are text-entry surfaces that can send messages into the same conversation.

GeeSeeker · 3 months ago

Closing this to avoid splitting the discussion. I moved the suggestion into the original thread here: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/22719#issuecomment-4486524037

GeeSeeker · 3 months ago

Closing as moved to #22719.