262526 - tab focus default preference excludes non-textbox form elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239175

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Rich Ellis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

By default, by pressing tab you can switch between text-box form elements on a
web page.  There is a preference in about:config (accessibility:tabfocus) that
allows you to tab between all form elements (tabfocus=3) or all form elements
*and* hyperlinks (tabfocus=7).

The default behavior seems oddly limiting -- why include only text boxes?  This
pref should either be exposed in the Prefs UI or default to "3" (all form
elements, but not hyperlinks).

This odd choice in defaults is noticeable enough to have warranted a tip in
Macworld Magazine's "Mac OS X Hints" section (Macworld, Oct '04, p.87).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is a dupe of bug 239175 or bug 260557, pick one :)

Comment 2

[Rich Ellis]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239175 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change