545883 - tabbing between fields does not select list controls in Snow Leopard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 349357

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[JConley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I am told that OSX 10.4/10.5 did not select list controls by default when tabbing between fields, but it was configurable via Sysprefs. In snow leopard, they have changed the default behavior such that lists are selected when tabbing through fields. I have confirmed this behavior in Safari and Chrome.

If I manually add accessibility.tabfocus to 2, Snow Leopard works properly.

Looking at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.tabfocus, it looks like this defaults to 1 in OSX. Perhaps this should read from the system prefs, or be conditional based on the OS version?

It also seems in Snow Leopard you cannot disable focusing on lists anymore. Goto sysprefs/keyboard/keyboard shortcuts and look at the "Full Keyboard Access" section.  (I don't have a 10.5 machine handy to confirm what capabilities there used to be)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto any URL with list controls (http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en)
2. Try to tab into the lists, focus will skip over them

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I compared 10.5 with 10.6 and they both have the same keyboard prefs on this:

Full keyboard access: In windows and dialogs, press Tab to move the keyboard focus between:
[o] Text boxes and lists only
[o] All controls

Safari interprets "lists" to include combo boxes, we, unfortunately, did not.