143995 - with tabs, ctrl-tab behaves weird - rc2

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106123

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[dmitry]

In 0.99, ctrl-tab allowed to go to the url line and then right back to the
active tab. Now the the itinerary of the focus includes all tabs of the current
window, and you can't tell when the focus is on one of the inactive tabs because
there's no visual clue. That's really weird. Either enable ctrl-tab to actually
_switch_ tabs, not just give focus to inactive tabs, or revert to the old
behavior of going between the current tab and the url line only. The latter is
preferable, because for switching tabs there are other means (ctrl-pgdn/up).

Comment 1

[Mike Brittain]

This might not be the right place for discussion on how ctrl-tab should work,
but with most apps that I've seen (in Windows) ctrl-tab will switch between
documents or windows within the main application window.  Is this similar for
Linux and/or Mac?  I would think that since ctrl-L is already a mechanism for
jumping to the address bar, why can't ctrl-tab be used for cycling through open
tabs?

Comment 2

[dmitry]

I would agree with the idea to use ctrl-tab for tab switching, if:

- ctrl-tab is made to actually switch tabs (now it only moves focus to inactive
tabs which is weird)

- ctrl-tab is made to NEVER move focus to the url bar, because in this case this
would be confusing

- to make jumping to url line and back easier, Esc and Ctrl-L in the url bar
must move focus back to the browser window (now only Tab can be used for this,
but this may not be intuitive for everyone)

- F6 must be similarly resolved; now it acts exactly as ctrl-tab, so it should
be made either to switch tabs, or to go to the url line and back (I would vote
for the latter)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This worksforme on a current Linux trunk build -- ctrl-tab just goes between url
bar and content area.

Comment 4

[Andrei Boros]

Recommend the following CTRL-tab behaviour: 

- If current window contains multiple tabs, should switch between those tabs (cycle)
- If current window does not contain tabs, should switch between active mozilla
windows (like Netscape 3 and 4 does and I consider it to be a very usefull
feature which I miss in Mozilla).

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM in 2002 060704 trunk.  This was fixed in bug 106123, "Ctrl+Tab focuses
hidden panes of tabbrowser".  According to comments in bug 106123, it was also
fixed for 1.0.1 but not for 1.0.

See bug 136915 for discussion about making Ctrl+Tab switch between tabs in
tabbed browser.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106123 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

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