Firefox Tip on the Mac: Tabbing through Select Fields
January 9th, 2008
By default, on a Mac in Firefox, tab moves from one form element to another—except it will skip radio buttons, checkboxes and drop-down select boxes. I have suffered in silence since I started using the Mac. I finally found out that this too can be remedied. Hooray!
There is an actual setting in the Mac OS that produces this behavior. To change this so that tab treats all form elements with equality go to: System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse and select the tab Keyboard Shortcuts. On the bottom you will see a setting for “Full Keyboard Access”. Just set it to All Controls. This setting will take effect right away, no need to restart Firefox.
Found this in the comments on John Resig’s blog
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September 13th, 2008 at 05:19 PM Wow! I've been struggling with this annoyance for months. Thanks for the great tip!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 PM Hey thanks for the info! These macs are an unruly bunch but we shall corral them!
March 26th, 2009 at 01:27 AM Thanks for the tip. This has been bothering me a lot.
April 4th, 2010 at 03:17 PM Excellent post. This has been slowing me down for months. Thanks!
January 17th, 2011 at 05:01 AM Thanks for this great tip. I use Firefox on Mac too.