382964 - Using the Tab key to navigate between input fields is broken

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Steve Won (stevewon on irc)]

Tab key can't be used to navigate between input field (e.g., going to the next text input field by pressing tab button).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I can't seem to reproduce this, with a recent Mac trunk build. Is this consistently reproducible? If not this might be a duplicate of bug 354768 (intermittent focus problems). Which build are you testing (I assume a recent trunk build, but it would be good to confirm)?

You might also try toggling the system "Full Keyboard Access" pref (System Preferences->Keyboard and Mouse->Keyboard->Turn on full keyboard access, since we obey that pref for determining mac "Tab" behavior. It's supposed to differentiate between "text fields only" and "all controls", however, so it probably wouldn't be causing what you describe here. One last stab in the dark: if the accessibility.tabfocus pref in Firefox has a user value, we'll use it to override the focus behavior. If it were set to "0" you'd probably also see this behavior.

Comment 2

[Steve Won (stevewon on irc)]

hmm... this is weird.
I can't reproduce it seem to reproduce em anymore (without making any changes since I filed the bug).

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Perhaps due to the bug I mentioned in comment 1, then. WORKSFORME for now, re-open if you can reproduce?