+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1754094 +++ Seen on 98.0a1 (2022-02-07) (64-bit) STR/Actual With focus on a tab title, pressing `tab` will now cycle the tab's close button and then all other close buttons of *all* open tabs. Cycling a potentially randly large number of elements is usually a bad idea, because it makes general navigation really hard. It's also not even helpful for closing multiple tabs via keyboard (try it!). Somewhere between TB 91 and Daily, this has regressed. Well, switching tabs via arrow keys was broken in TB 91, too. Expected: Firefox 96.0.3 (64-bit) has the correct and useful behaviour: - Shift+Tab into tab title, which will have a clear solid blue focus ring (not the almost invisible thin dotted line which TB is showing) - Cursor right/left switches to other tabs - `Tab` follows the tab cycle of the current tab only As a sidenote, if we'd allow `Del` on a focused tab title to close the tab, that might be more efficient than the currently available keyboard methods of closing the tab...
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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1754094 +++ Seen on 98.0a1 (2022-02-07) (64-bit) STR/Actual With focus on a tab title, pressing `tab` will now cycle the tab's close button and then all other close buttons of *all* open tabs. Cycling a potentially randomly large number of elements is usually a bad idea, because it makes general navigation really hard. It's also not even helpful for closing multiple tabs via keyboard (try it!). Somewhere between TB 91 and Daily, this has regressed. Well, switching tabs via arrow keys was broken in TB 91, too. Expected: Firefox 96.0.3 (64-bit) has the correct and useful behaviour: - Shift+Tab into tab title, which will have a clear solid blue focus ring (not the almost invisible thin dotted line which TB is showing) - Cursor right/left switches to other tabs - `Tab` follows the tab cycle of the current tab only As a sidenote, if we'd allow `Del` on a focused tab title to close the tab, that might be more efficient than the currently available keyboard methods of closing the tab...
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1754094 +++ Seen on 98.0a1 (2022-02-07) (64-bit) STR/Actual With focus on a tab title, pressing `tab` will now cycle the tab's close button and then all other close buttons of *all* open tabs. Cycling a potentially randomly large number of elements is usually a bad idea, because it can make general navigation really hard. It's also not even helpful for closing multiple tabs via keyboard (try it!). Somewhere between TB 91 and Daily, this has regressed. Well, switching tabs via arrow keys was broken in TB 91, too. Expected: Firefox 96.0.3 (64-bit) has the correct and useful behaviour: - Shift+Tab into tab title, which will have a clear solid blue focus ring (not the almost invisible thin dotted line which TB is showing) - Cursor right/left switches to other tabs - `Tab` follows the tab cycle of the current tab only As a sidenote, if we'd allow `Del` on a focused tab title to close the tab, that might be more efficient than the currently available keyboard methods of closing the tab...