292176 - Ctrl-Tab for tabs should mimic the behaviour of Alt-Tab for windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 178556

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Seungbeom Kim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I searched for a similar topic, but I couldn't find one. Sorry if this is a
duplicate.

In many window managers, including Microsoft Windows, pressing Tab once while
holding down Alt brings up the last window. You can switch back and forth
between two windows by repeating this. Pressing Tab twice while holding down Alt
brings up the second-to-last window, and so on. And adding Shift makes the
direction reverse; so e.g. pressing Tab Tab Shift-Tab while holding down Alt is
the same as pressing Tab while holding down Alt, and brings up the last window.

This has become what many people naturally expect from switching between
windows. The same thing should be done with Ctrl-Tab for tabs within a window.

For example, suppose I have five tabs. On tab #3, ctrl-clicking a link opens a
new tab #6. Pressing Ctrl-Tab should bring up tab #3, not tab #1.

Currently, Ctrl-Tab is the same as Ctrl-PageDown and Ctrl-Shift-Tab is the same
as Ctrl-PageUp, but this is unnecessary. Since sequential movement can still be
done with Ctrl-PageUp/Ctrl-PageDown.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 103796?

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This was a no a long time ago, and its still a not.  There seems to be a small
extension to do this though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178556 ***