207811 - Tab switching order should match OS convention

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144207

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[gnupun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When browsing with about half-a-dozen or so tabs open, I find the need to
quickly switch between two or three tabs. In all MDI Windows apps (such a Visual
C++), pressing ctrl-tab switches to previous document you were viewing. In
mozilla pressing ctrl-tab switches to next tab in order.

This bug is highly annoying for keyboard users when two frequently used tabs
have a lot of other tabs in between. Please implement z-order tab switching for
ctrl-tab.

For in-order traversal of tabs, user should use ctrl-pgup, ctrl-pgdown.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 5 web pages such that there are 5 tabs with titles A, B, C, D, E, in order.
2. Click on tab C, then on tab A.
3. Press Ctrl-TAB to switch from Tab A to Tab C. Instead Mozilla switches to Tab B.

Actual Results:  
Tab B is displayed

Expected Results:  
Tab C should be displayed

Comment 1

[Sander]

Such window switching order may be valild for _MDI_ - but Mozilla is not an MDI
application. Tabs are completely different.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144207 ***