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Re: does anyone use Firefox's ctrl+tab feature?

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From: Krista Greear
Date: Jul 12, 2018 7:34AM


I am also a strong keyboard shortcut user. I have used Control+Tab (or
Control+Shift+Tab) extensively in Firefox for the last 6 years to move from
tab to tab. I am not familiar with the shortcut to reach the most recent
tabs.

Krista

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Tim Harshbarger <
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> I also use control+tab frequently. However, I tend to make the assumption
> that control+tab takes me to the next tab in the order of tabs and not to
> the most recently used tab. I don't think I have had problems with this in
> Firefox with the v60 and v61 updates.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WebAIM] does anyone use firefox's ctrl+tab
> feature?
>
> I realize this isn't the answer that you are looking for, but I will often
> use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to go back and forth between two tabs in
> Firefox.
>
> Hope that helps at least a little!
>
> Dan Swift
> Senior Web Specialist
> Enterprise Services
> West Chester University
> 610.738.0589
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of glen walker
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 6:00 PM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] does anyone use firefox's ctrl+tab feature?
>
> I like to alternate between my two most recently used tabs in firefox by
> using ctrl+tab. Similar to how I can alternate between my two most
> recently used apps by using alt+tab (on a pc). But I can't get this
> feature to work in firefox and it's frustrating from a keyboard user
> perspective.
>
> I used to use firefox 56 and ESR since the quantum version didn't work
> well with jaws. With those versions of firefox, I could use an addon
> called tabmixplus that enabled the ctrl+tab to work. It was great. I'm
> using firefox 61 now (the latest non-beta update) and with firefox quantum,
> the tabmixplus addon no longer works and firefox disables it as a "legacy"
> addon.
>
> However, there's an option in about:preferences (or tools > options)
> called "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order". It basically
> just changes the "browser.ctrlTab.previews" config option from false to
> true.
> If I have both the preferences and config options open, I can see changing
> the value in one updates the other and vice versa.
>
> But the option doesn't work for me. Ctrl+tab still just sequentially goes
> through the tabs. I've tried running with all addons disabled, I've
> restarted firefox, and I've rebooted. Nothing can get it to work. I was
> curious if anyone uses that option.
>
> Glen
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