343994 - Browser does not set focus on Buttons, Checkboxes, and Selects when I use the TAB key.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187508

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Alex Levchuk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When I fill out forms online I usually use the tab key to go the next element of the form. But after switching to a Mac I was no longer able to set focus on Select-boxes, List-boxes, Checkboxes, and Buttons. But I can use the mouse to focus on each of those elements and then operate on them with the keyboard. For example if there is an alphabetized list of states of the USA, I can select California by pressing "c".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to submit a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
2. Type-up the bugs details in the "Details" <textarea> box. 
3. Press tab to switch to the next question, which is Reproducibility dropdown.

Actual Results:  
Instead you focus falls into the Steps to Reproduce <textarea>

Expected Results:  
The focus should have fell into the Reproducibility <select> box. Than I would select the responce I want by pressing the down, up, home, or end key.

Works fine in Safai, but a little slow.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Tell your OS what you want, and we'll do it. System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts, Full keyboard access, or Ctrl-F7 to toggle it back and forth.

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

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 348315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***