140880 - [RFE] [Mac] Add Cycle Through Windows option.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 53505

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

Under the Window menu, there should be a submenu called "Cycle Through Windows"
and its keyboard shortcut should be Command+Tilde. This will go through all of
Mozilla's open windows in the order listed in the Window menu, starting with the
window that currently has focus.

This would make it easier, for example, to go to a compose window buried under
several navigator windows (such as when I need to surf for additional
information to paste into my mail messages or newsgroup posts).

Many Mac applications have this feature and it would be very useful if Moz had
this too, since MacOS users tend to look for this in their apps.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Keyboard Nav

Comment 2

[Adrian Ulrich]

nah.. on a swiss german keyboard, it would be:
CTRL+ALT GR+^

..not a very confortable shortcut imho for this keyboard layout..

Comment 3

[Sagie Maoz]

How about Ctrl+F6, standard for cycling "child" windows in MSWin apps?

Comment 4

[Bruce Davidson]

This is effectively a duplicate of bug 53505, which is targetted at 1.0.1 (but 
isn't assigned to anyone).

That bug has a fair bit of discussion on the appropriate key combination to 
use, and was generally in favour of something other than Cmd+~. However it 
appears there is an Apple HIG for the key combination, at least under MacOS X.

Resolving as dupe - please add comments on the key to 53505 _if_ it hasn't been 
covered already.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53505 ***

Comment 5

[Bamm Gabriana]

Bruce: that bug doesn't address the presence of the "Cycle Through Windows"
submenu. Can this be the bug for that or is there a dupe for that? Thanks.

Sagie: Mac users aren't familiar with F6 just as Windows users aren't familiar
with Cmd+` (mainly because there is not Cmd button in Windows) so we should
use the shortcut used by Mac people.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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