269441 - place tab-cycling shortcuts in menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Daryle Walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I didn't realize that browser tabs can be cycled with keyboard shortcuts until I
came across the information while randomly looking at a Mozilla web site.  It
should be more obvious.

Maybe it can be a menu item.  The "Safari" program puts the commands under the
"Window" menu, complete with the keyboard shortcuts.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We support OS-standard tab switching shortcuts (such as Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn, which
works on every tabbed interface I've used on Windows) so its not really
necessary.  Browser tabs will be in the tab order in 1.1, so users can tab and
use left-right arrow keys as well.  There's no need for a menu item to show
OS-standard behaviour.

Comment 2

[Daryle Walker]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We support OS-standard tab switching shortcuts (such as Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn, which
> works on every tabbed interface I've used on Windows) so its not really
> necessary.  Browser tabs will be in the tab order in 1.1, so users can tab and
> use left-right arrow keys as well.  There's no need for a menu item to show
> OS-standard behaviour.

But I'm on a Mac, which doesn't have OS-standard tab switching shortcuts, so
your justification is meaningless to me.  Maybe we can re-classify this as a
Mac-only bug?  We could also always have the next/previous Tab in a menu, but
only have the shortcuts listed for the Mac (as they're non-standard there).  Of
course, implementing the 1.1 solution on the Mac will also work.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 328743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jon Willeke]

I agree with Daryle: OS X does not have a standard for tab switching, and even if it does, Ctrl-PgDn is not it.  Providing menu items make it possible for a user to change Firefox to match Safari (the de facto standard for tabbed applications on OS X) using the standard keyboard shortcut mechanism (System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts).