Codex Desktop browser annotations: Ctrl+Enter queues comments, but the shortcut is undiscoverable

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 21, 2026 by Sapientropic Closed May 21, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Summary

In Codex Desktop's in-app browser annotation mode, clicking the arrow / pressing Enter now sends the annotation immediately. This made it look like the old multi-comment batch workflow was removed.

After testing, I found that Ctrl+Enter on Windows queues/adds the annotation instead of sending it immediately. On macOS this appears to be Cmd+Enter.

Why this is confusing

Expected behavior

Please consider one or more of:

  • Show a tooltip for the annotation submit button:
  • Enter: Send
  • Ctrl+Enter: Add / queue annotation
  • Document the shortcut in the in-app browser docs.
  • Add a setting to choose the default annotation submit mode:
  • Add / queue annotations
  • Send immediately
  • Restore the previous multi-comment workflow as the default, or make the current mode visually explicit.

Environment

  • Codex Desktop
  • Windows
  • App version observed: 26.513.4821.0

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

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

  • #23456
  • #22719

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Sapientropic · 3 months ago

Closing as a duplicate of #22719. I added the Windows-specific Ctrl+Enter / tooltip / docs note to the original thread: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/22719#issuecomment-4508684892