216083 - Add keyboard shortcut for "Reload all tabs" feature

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Timwi]

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

It would be nice to have a new feature that would reload all tabs within a given
window. This new feature would have a menu item underneath 'reload' and a keyboard
shortcut of, perhaps, Ctrl+F5 (like in Opera).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Patrick]

-> tabbed browsing

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

right click on the tab bar ans select "Reload all Tabs" -> wfm

Comment 3

[Timwi]

Reopening because there doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortcut for it

Comment 4

[Prognathous]

How often do you need to reload all tabs that a keyboard shortcut is needed? how
about right clicking a tab and pressing 'A'? it does the same thing and is quite
convenient IMHO.

Prog.

Comment 5

[Timwi]

Yes, I do need to reload all tabs pretty often.

And your work-around still requires me to use the mouse, which is inconvenient
for someone like me who uses the keyboard almost exclusively. Not to mention
someone who, due to some physical disability, cannot use the mouse at all.

Comment 6

[Bryan Mills]

Reload All should also be the behaviour for a middle-click on the "reload"
button (which currently does nothing).

Ctrl-Shift-F5 would probably be a good keyboard shortcut for "reload all tabs".

Comment 7

[Simon Males]

I believe Ctrl+Shift+R is already used for reload from server (no cache).

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Timwi]

I'm not sure I understand why it's so difficult to add this keyboard shortcut,
or why there would be a reason not to do so even when it's easy. We've
established that Ctrl+Shift+R is taken, but surely Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R will do.

Comment 10

[Simon Bünzli]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I'm not sure I understand why it's so difficult to add this keyboard shortcut,

Feel free to offer a patch, have it reviewed and get it into the source. Note that this is currently a SeaMonkey bug (which could be moved into the Firefox product category by the reporter).

> We've established that Ctrl+Shift+R is taken, but surely Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R will do.

Ctrl+Alt is used for system-wide shortcuts under Windows. My suggestion would thus rather have been Shift+F5 (which I occasionally use myself when I've opened a bunch of tabs while offline and then restore Internet access).

Comment 11

[Rahul Abrol]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension:_Firefox#Reload_All_Tabs