311852 - control key sometimes actually used on the Mac

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Avi Rappoport]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

In general, the control key on Windows = the command key on the Mac.  But not
*quite* always, so the docs are sometimes wrong.

The one I know about is that command-tab cycles among applications, but
control-tab cycles among Firefox tabs (a darn useful feature, btw).  Likewise,
shift-command-tab goes to the previous application, while shift-control-tab goes
to the previous tab.  

So you have to fix the documentation to differentiate.  I know you can do this
because the number keys for moving among tabs are already differentiated.

Thanks much,

Avi

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try command-tab
2.  Try control-tab
3.  Compare the difference

Actual Results:  
there was a difference

Expected Results:  
Documentation should be correct.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

See bug 299050. In 1.5, Ctrl+Tab is no longer supported on Mac for tab switching. 

Also, as far as I can see this is documented correctly in Firifox 1.0.x (under
"Keyboard Shortcuts", it says "Ctrl+Tab" (and "Ctrl+Shift+Tab"). Where have you
seen the wrong documentation?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299050 ***

Comment 2

[Avi Rappoport]

I found it at http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

Next Tab  	Ctrl/Cmd+Tab

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

OK, reopening and setting component to web site. Sorry - I didn't notice the URL
field before.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

looks like the correct key combo for switching tabs in Firefox 1.5 is Cmd+Opt+arrow where the arrow is either left or right to move to the next tab in that direction.

Comment 5

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

As far as I can tell, David fixed this in rev 1.33, when he changed the page to say Cmd+Opt+tab, rather than Ctrl/Cmd+Tab (as cited in comment 2).

Is Cmd+Opt+tab still correct?

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> As far as I can tell, David fixed this in rev 1.33, when he changed the page to
> say Cmd+Opt+tab, rather than Ctrl/Cmd+Tab (as cited in comment 2).
> 
> Is Cmd+Opt+tab still correct?

No answer? Closing this bug as worksforme.