Open Bug 1811768 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Keyboard shortcut for opening the Back/Fwd dropdowns

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Version:
Firefox 109
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: vp2177+mozbugz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0

Steps to reproduce:

While there exist several convenient keyboard shortcuts for navigating back/forward in history one entry at a time (eg. Alt←, ⌘[, ...), accessing the corresponding drop-down menus to is not easy with the keyboard.

Actual results:

I managed to get to the Back button with: Crtl+L⇑Tab⇑Tab⇑Tab... not convenient

Expected results:

I would like to request new keyboard shortcuts that directly open these dropdowns. Long-pressing the shortcut for back/forward would be ideal, eg. long-press Ctrl[ to open the Back button's dropdown. Currently this results in repeatedly going back in history but with no visual feedback whatsoever, making it hardly useful.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Navigation' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: Navigation
Product: Firefox → Core
Component: DOM: Navigation → General
Product: Core → Firefox

Opening this issue as an Enhancement.

Severity: -- → S4
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Keyboard Navigation
Ever confirmed: true
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.