315526 - Ctrl + pgup or pgdown to switch tabs doesn't work in an input field

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 290177

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Luca M.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

as subject, Ctrl + pgup or pgdown  doesn't work if the cursor is in a textfield.

This worked on firefox 1.0.7 and not anymore on firefox 1.5

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. www.google.com
2. press CTRL + PGUP

Actual Results:  
doesn't switch between tabs

Expected Results:  
switch between tabs

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Was fixed in bug 232770 for the location bar.

Confirmed in Firefox 1.5 RC1 on Windows XP. The autocompletion pops up and prevents the tab-swtiching.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

Comment 2

[Luca M.]

what's that "DUPEME" ?

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

An indication that reminds us that it might still be a duplicate of an existing bug, but I didn't find it (except some older ones that were already duped to bug 232770).

Comment 4

[Luca M.]

That bug 232770 titles: Tab-switching shortcuts don't work when address bar has focus (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+PgDn)

it is referring to address bar.

I'm referring to textboxes.

You can test in this page ... for example, go in "Keywords" and try to press CTRL+PGUP and it does not work...

but if you are in "Additional Comments" it works!!!!

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I tried it out, opened www.google.com in an extra tab, put the cursor in the inputfield, and all that I can say is that ctrl+pg.up or ctrl+pg.down mostly doesn't work.
On this page, when I click in this Additional Comments box and hit ctrl+pg.up or ctrl+pg.down it always goes to the other tab.
It seems to have regressed between 21-2-2005 and 2-3-2005 so big chance that this is a dupe. 

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210435 ***

Comment 7

[Luca M.]

Excuse me, Steve: I don't agree you mark this bug as dupe of that bug that is  RESOLVED WONTFIX.

Tab switching is a Firefox feature and it should work by keyboard *everytime*.

On Firefox 1.0.7 it works perfectly, on 1.5 it's *broken*.

The completion list of text field, can be also invoked with "down" arrow.

Tab switching is extremly useful if you want to write in a tab things from another tab.

Comment 8

[Mike Goodspeed]

Luca, please use CTRL+TAB instead of CTRL+PGDN and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB instead of CTRL+PGUP.  This bug is a duplicate of another bug, please do not reopen it.

As a workaround, turn off form autocomplete (Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Save Forms > uncheck) if you really want CTRL+PGUP and CTRL+PGDN to work in textboxes.  I believe this feature was 'removed' for IE parody.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290177 ***

Comment 9

[Misha Kruk]

This was a frequently used feature in a previous release.  How can you just say "please use ..." instead?  And why?  I beleive that this shortcut for switching using ctrl+pgup and ctrl+pgdn was adverties as an added feature in one of the earlier Firefox release notes.  I've been using it for ages.  It still works in some cases.  This is clearly a bug introduced in 1.5

(In reply to comment #8)
> Luca, please use CTRL+TAB instead of CTRL+PGDN and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB instead of
> CTRL+PGUP.  This bug is a duplicate of another bug, please do not reopen it.
> 
> As a workaround, turn off form autocomplete (Tools -> Options -> Privacy ->
> Save Forms > uncheck) if you really want CTRL+PGUP and CTRL+PGDN to work in
> textboxes.  I believe this feature was 'removed' for IE parody.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290177 ***
>