298473 - Mac OS X tabfocus default different from Windows, prevents tab navigation of forms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187508

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Angus Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

By default, Windows Firefox users can load pages containing HTML forms and press
the "Tab" key to move between form elements on the page, including INPUTs and
SELECTs.  However, by default Mac Firefox users cannot press the "Tab" key to
move to drop-down menu items in a form (SELECT elements).  This is both at odds
with the Windows behavior and annoying to users.  

The only workaround is for users to care enough about the problem to care, go to
google, strike out, go to mozillazine.org forums, search, read through postings,
and then learn that if one changes the accessibility.tabfocus setting from 1 to
7 using about:config, the problem will be resolved (with unknown side effects).
 Obviously this is not an acceptable solution for normal people.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Load a page containing an HTML FORM that includes several elements,
including a SELECT element
2.  Attempt to tab from element to element in the form, just as a normal user
would do
Actual Results:  
Notice that on Mac OS X, the browser simply skips over SELECT elements when
tabbing through a form

Expected Results:  
You would expect that when pressing tab to move through the form, it would go to
each element in the form, including SELECT elements.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

See bug 239175, bug 187508, bug 260557.

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187508 ***