220588 - Cmd-Shift-Left/Right should change tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 211247

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Namba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030926 Firebird/0.7+/jtalkington-nightly
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030926 Firebird/0.7+/jtalkington-nightly

I think Cmd-Shift-Left/Right should change tabs as it does in safari, or at
least Cmd-Shift-[ and -] as in Camino. Using PgUp/Dn is not nearly as convenient
on macs (esp powerbooks) and is not expected (except by users of the
windows/linux Firebird).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hit one of the above key combinations.
Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Change to next/previous tab.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Seamonkey bug 211247

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

-> hyatt

Comment 3

[louis bennett]

this raises issues in text areas, where mozilla has historically (and properly)
selected all text to the right/left in that line. (a gripe of mine about safari,
that i often run into when using content management programs.) hence, i tend to
favor cmd-shift-[ and cmd-shift-] unless it's reasonable to toggle behavior
based on state.

Comment 4

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

moving hyatt's mac bugs to ben

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Is this bug still valid? I can use cmd-shift-arrow to move to either side now...

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

CMD-ALT+left or right works too on OSX.

I believe this can be marked FIXED in spite of CMD+Shift not working: I don't think we need twenty similar key combinations to do the same thing.

Also, as per comment 3, since on Mac, CMD+Left is what the "Home" key is for Windows, changing this behavior would be a bug in itself by making it impossible to select entire lines in text boxes on OSX. Which would make it a WONTFIX I guess.

In any case, please close this bug unless you disagree.

Comment 8

[bugzilla]

Everything else (Safari, Adium, Terminal) uses Command-Shift-Left and Command-Shift-Right to switch tabs - Firefox shouldn't just ignore these standard shortcuts.

It's very, very frustrating for me to have to keep a mental context and try to remember to use the Firefox-specific shortcuts and not to use them in other apps (where they obviously don't work).

Comment 9

[Jonathan Dance]

Actually Cmd-Shift-Left/Right does not change tabs in Safari, at least in the current version, 3.2.1. It uses Cmd-{/}, which Firefox supports. Firefox does support Cmd-Opt-Left/Right, which Safari does not.

It is true that Terminal uses this shortcut.

Adium uses Cmd-Left/Right to change tabs, not Cmd-Shift-Left/Right.

I do not see a reason to add support for this shortcut in Firefox: there's clearly no standard practice, and Firefox supports the shortcut that Safari uses.

Comment 10

[bugzilla]

Hm, you're right - Safari doesn't support Cmd-Shift-Left/Right, but Adium does (at least on my system), as does Terminal.

Adium, Terminal and Firefox are the 3 apps I use most, so any way to make it consistent among the three (even as a hidden prefs.js option) would be very helpful.

Comment 11

[bugzilla]

Ah, I found the preference in Adium under General, "Switch tabs with:", which gives me the option to use Cmd-{ and Cmd-} - that seems to work in all the apps I care about, so I'll give it a try.