452547 - Cmd+{ doesn't work when siteicon is focused

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Chris Pepper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Normally, in Firefox 2 and Safari, I can move left one tab with `Command-Shift-[`. After upgrading to Firefox 3.0.1, I could only move left as far as the first tab in the window this way; I could not loop around to the rightmost tab -- nothing happened. I cycled right past the end, back to the leftmost tab, and afterwards was able to go left past the edge too, as I should have been able all along.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open several tabs.
2. Hit `Command-Shift-[` enough times to get to the first tab.
3. Hit `Command-Shift-[` again.
Actual Results:  
Doesn't move again once at the left-most tab.

Expected Results:  
Should loop around from the leftmost tab to the rightmost.

I was able to go right from the rightmost tab, after which I could suddenly go left from the leftmost too!

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I don't see this problem.

I opened three tabs, then used cmd-shift-[ to move left through them.
When I reached the left-most tab, pressing cmd-shift-[ switched to the
right-most tab.

I tested in Firefox 3.0.1 on OS X 10.5.4 and 10.4.11.

Conceivably this is a settings problem.  Try giving yourself a fresh
profile.

The easiest way to give yourself a fresh profile (and one that's
reversible if need be) is:

1) Quit Firefox.

2) Open a Terminal window and change to the Library/Application
   Support/ directory (the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory
   under your home directory).

3) Rename the Firefox directory to something like Firefox.old.

4) Restart Firefox.

Comment 2

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

I think I know what's happening here.

Steps to reproduce:
1.  Open a new tab, click in location bar, type www.mozilla.org, hit Enter.
2.  Wait for page to load.
2.  Shift-Tab until the location bar is selected.
3.  Shift-Tab one more time.  It will look like nothing is selected.
4.  Hit Cmd+{.

Expected:  Switch to previous tab.
Observed:  Browser goes *ding*

I don't know why I'm so special, but I end up triggering this often.

Comment 3

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

(In reply to comment #2)

Interesting!

Your STR also "works" for me (I see the problem when I follow it).

Variations on it may also work to reproduce otherwise non-reproducible
bugs that look like focus bugs.

Are there similar switch-tabs key combinations (besides ctrl-tab) that
work in Firefox on Windows or Linux?

Comment 4

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

(Following up comment #3)

> Are there similar switch-tabs key combinations (besides ctrl-tab)
> that work in Firefox on Windows or Linux?

Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown are one example.

With them Jason's STR "works" (with Firefox 3.0.1) on OS X, Windows
and Linux.  No beep, though (even on OS X).

Comment 5

[Josh Triplett]

Still reproducible here with 4.0 beta 9 on Linux.

Comment 6

[Seetu]

I would like to work on this bug, Can you please assign me this bug?