211724 - New keyboard functionality (feature request)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 WebWasher 3.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Hello,

I've been an Opera user until recently, and I've decided to switch to Mozilla. There are a few (tiny, trivial to code) keyboard navigation related features that I'm missing, and I'd be extremely grateful if someone could add them.

1) "Search for next link". The apostrophe feature currently lets you type the text of a link and then press enter to follow it; however, if several links on the page have the same text, it's not quite easy. It would be great if (after pressing Apostrophe and typing some text) I could press a certain key and it would jump to the next link that also contains the same text I have entered.

2) "Un-focus form element". When I'm in a form element such as a textbox or a drop-down list, the Up/Down arrow will go to that form element. I would like to be able to press a shortcut that would bring focus back to the actual web-page, so I can use Up/Down arrow for scrolling the web-page again. Of course, the same shortcut should also focus the web-page when focus is at the address bar.

3) "Navigate form elements". Using Tab for both links and form elements is very cumbersome, especially because most web-pages have many more links than form elements. Opera have solved this elegantly by reserving "Tab/Shift Tab" for form elements and "A/Q" for links. If something like that could be put into Mozilla too, that would be great.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Timwi]

Hmpf. I would have hoped Mozilla would create line-breaks, but ... :-p

Anyway, here's the same text with linebreaks.

I've been an Opera user until recently, and I've decided to switch to 
Mozilla. There are a few (tiny, trivial to code) keyboard navigation 
related features that I'm missing, and I'd be extremely grateful if 
someone could add them.

1) "Search for next link". The apostrophe feature currently lets you type 
the text of a link and then press enter to follow it; however, if several 
links on the page have the same text, it's not quite easy. It would be 
great if (after pressing Apostrophe and typing some text) I could press a 
certain key and it would jump to the next link that also contains the 
same text I have entered.

2) "Un-focus form element". When I'm in a form element such as a textbox 
or a drop-down list, the Up/Down arrow will go to that form element. I 
would like to be able to press a shortcut that would bring focus back to 
the actual web-page, so I can use Up/Down arrow for scrolling the 
web-page again. Of course, the same shortcut should also focus the 
web-page when focus is at the address bar.

3) "Navigate form elements". Using Tab for both links and form elements 
is very cumbersome, especially because most web-pages have many more 
links than form elements. Opera have solved this elegantly by reserving 
"Tab/Shift Tab" for form elements and "A/Q" for links. If something like 
that could be put into Mozilla too, that would be great.

Comment 2

[Timwi]

Another thing I forgot:

The caret mode (F7) does a lot of weird things. On some web-pages, Home and
End don't do anything, on others they scroll the webpage to the top and bottom.
In caret mode, Home and End should only move the cursor to the beginning and end
of the current line. Crrl+Home and Ctrl+End should instead go to the very
beginning and very end when in Caret mode.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla does linebreaks. It could be "webwasher" who breaks it..

This bug is invalid because we accept only one isue/bug report

1) Use F3 or CTRL+G
2) press Tab (once) ?

Please open a bug for each remaining issue

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I forgot: Report such bugs in the component "Keyboard Navigation"

Comment 5

[Timwi]

You are contradicting yourself. First you say you don't accept feature requests,
then you say I should still report it. Now what?

Also, if you don't accept feature requests, then how does Mozilla ever grow?

Comment 6

[Timwi]

Or are you saying it's only invalid because it's several feature requests in one?
Sorry, I didn't understand that. Please confirm - if that is the case, I'll open
separate items.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i didn't wrote the we don't accept RFEs !
I told you that we don't accept 3 enhancement requests in one bug.

And be sure that you searched very hard for existing bugs before you file a bug.