288555 - Change keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs to use Shift+Apple+[arrow keys].

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Tanner Lovelace]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050316 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050316 Camino/0.8+

Please consider changing the keyboard shortcut for switching which tab is in
view to be Shift+Apple+[left/right arrow] instead of it's current
Alt+Apple+[left/right arrow]. There are two reasons for this:

1. It duplicates the interface for changing tabs that Safari uses making it
easier for people to switch.
2. On laptops (like my iBook), the Alt (or option) key is only on one side of
the keyboard necessitating the use of both hands to switch which tab is in view.
 By switching to Shift+Apple+[left/right arrow] tabs can be switched using one hand.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[L. H.]

Bug 162107 comment 30 has a patch but it makes it impossible to change tabs from
a text field.

In 10.3 you can change the shortcuts for Camino yourself with System Preferences.

Comment 2

[Tanner Lovelace]

*** Bug 288565 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Tanner Lovelace]

Interesting bug there (#162107).  I'm not convinced, though, that it's people
switching from Mozilla (or Firefox these days) that Camino should be targeting.
 I think it's people who are switching from Safari.  I, for one, have switched
to Camino from Safari on my iBook G3 600Mhz because Safari got to be too slow. 
Firefox is also too slow.  Camino, in contrast, has very good performance. 
Being consistent with the dominant browser (like it or not) on OS X would be a
good thing and it would make the migration easier.

I see the arguments, btw, that Cmd-Shift-[left/right arrow] already implements
select to beginning/end.  I still maintain, though, that being the same as
Safari (which has changed this behavior to switch tabs) would be better from the
standpoint of getting people to switch.  In addition, Alt-Cmd-[left/right arrow]
is awkward in that you must use two hands to switch tabs.  By switching to
Cmd-Shift-[left/right arrow] you can accomplish tab switching using only the
right hand (or you can still use both hands if you wish).

Comment #2 mentions you can change this using the system preferences in 10.3. 
How would one go about doing this?  I tried adding it into the keyboard
shortcuts preference, but it doesn't seem to have taken.  I wonder if I need to
restart Camino?

Comment 4

[Tanner Lovelace]

In regards to the question I asked in Comment #3 (incorrectly referencing
comment #2 when I meant to reference comment #1), yes, all that was needed was
to restart Camino.  Because the keyboard shortcuts can be changed so easily,
I'll go ahead and close this bug as Invalid.  I still think, though, that this
would be a better default so we don't confuse Safari users that might switch.

Comment 5

[S Woodside]

See also the discussions in Bug 162107 and Bug 601324.