Comments on: Tabbing problems in Firefox in Mac OS X

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:48:49 +0000

James,

Glad it was of help!

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:18:19 +0000

Thanks for this, a quick search solved this annoying problem.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:06:33 +0000

Glad it helped you!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:13:29 +0000

Love it. Thanks!

By: Ameliyat Mikroskobu

Ameliyat Mikroskobu — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:13:07 +0000

nice article…

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:52:21 +0000

kate,

Glad it helped!
Thanks for mentioning about Safari too.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:41:41 +0000

Thank you so much for that! It was really bugging me!
BTW Safari may not be effected by changing this preference because you can set this option “Press tab to highlight each item on a webpage” in the Safari Advanced preferences. Thanks again!

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:10:45 +0000

angela,

Glad I can be of assistance!
Sorry about Opera, though, I have no idea.

By: angela

angela — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:47:17 +0000

This is the second time I’ve landed on your site when I’ve been searching for elusive answers – thank you!

So I have a question, do you know if this is also a problem in Opera? I can’t seem to tab at all on web pages I know are keybard accessible. Any ideas?

By: sillybean » Keyboard navigation, Firefox, and Macs

sillybean » Keyboard navigation, Firefox, and Macs — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:12:20 +0000

[...] as I expected, it turned out to be a combination of OS X prefs and Firefox settings. The key is in this article on tabbing problems in Firefox (which, to my amusement, includes notes on setting this in Camino as [...]

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:51 +0000

Stu,

Good that it helped! Interesting about Safari, I didn’t know that.

By: Stu Thompson

Stu Thompson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:12 +0000

Ha, I had just filed a bug report for a web app, only to learn it is a “feature” Thanks for explaining this clearly and concisely…it was the first link i choose on my google search, and solved the problem.

BTW: Safari 3 did exhibit this behavior for me…

Stu

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:12:54 +0000

H Steele,

Sorry, but I can’t help you.

By: H Steele

H Steele — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:43:30 +0000

In constructing my site with I Web, I used regularly updated Leopard, most recent version of I Web, IPhoto and my websites menu bar is not visible using Firefox on any of a dozen pc’s I have tried and it displays erratically with the background of each page with Internet Explorer. Apple store geniuses and one to one consultants say they have no idea and never heard of this issue.
Any ideas ?
Thanks !

By: MacMac

MacMac — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:37:54 +0000

Kanashii & Robert,
Great info!
Just started using my new MacBook a few weeks ago and this was Bugging me.
I set to 7 on Firefox, and navigating/filling out forms is MUCH easier now. Thanks!

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:20:13 +0000

ignore me – forgot how to add items!

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:16:17 +0000

Just tried this on FF3 RC3 and the about:config option isn’t there.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:22:45 +0000

This is great Robert (and fair play to Kanashii for finding the Firefox specific fix). It is a little troubling that this problem exists with Firefox however. I wonder how many people have just put it down to shoddy form implementation in Firefox and switched to something else?

It would be interesting to see if Firefox 3 can tab properly through forms on the Mac ‘out-of-the-box’ so to speak.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:33:38 +0000

Paul,

Great that it helped you out!

By: Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:28:08 +0000

Robert, my good man. You came up on top of the google results for my search for this.
And you saved me much frustration. Thank you.