510311 - Need keyboard shortcut to switch panels in Options window when focus is on pref

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Noah (NoahSUMO/SolidSnake) [:Noah]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090718 Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090718 Firefox/3.6a1pre

Currently, you have to have focus on the panel icon, then use the up, down, left, or right arrow keys. If focus is not on the panel icon, and you are about half way down the panel focused on a pref, you have to use shift+tab to backup all the way to the panel icon or tab all the way downward until you return focus to the panel icon.

That's harsh. I propose we add a ctrl+tab shortcut to quickly switch between panels, and 
- make Up & Down arrow keys act as Tab to move up & down within the panel
- allow the Home & End keys to choose the 1st panel & last panel
- allow PgUp & PgDn to cycle thru the panels

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave]

In Windows, under Tools/Options, the top toolbar items for Main/Tabs/Content/Applications/Privacy/Security/Advanced, are missing keyboard shortcut keys.
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I use a macro to toggle: Tools/Options/Content/Colors/-Use system colors, and -Allow pages to choose their own pages, for accessibility reasons.
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At present, the macro ONLY works if the last time I accessed Options, I left the Options on the Content panel. The macro does not work if I was previously not on the Content panel.
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If there aren't enough letters in the alphabet, may I suggest to rename "Main" to "1. Main", "Tabs" to "2. Tabs", "Content" to "3. Content", and so on, with 1, 2, and 3 and so on for shortcut keys. 
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As shortcut keys appear for most other sub-options, this may have been an oversight.

Comment 2

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it, and I will be identifying the people who broke it, like Asif Youssuff, personally, until it is identified as the bug that it is.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.