Bug 86502 – ctrl-number does not switch tabs in firefox

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Max Lindner 2005-03-24 04:47:04 UTC]

with firefox-1.0 it was possible to switch tabs with ctrl-number directly, now with firefox-1.0.1 and 1.0.2 I must use ctrl-tab to go through the tabs...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
ctrl-number does nothing

Expected Results:  
ctrl-number should switch to the corresponding tab

[Comment 1 Joseph Booker 2005-03-24 12:41:15 UTC]

I don't have this problem with firefox 1.0.1 (upgrading to 1.0.2 soon), perhaps it has to do with gtk? can u switch tabs that way in gaim, xchat, etc? Your USE flags  (from emerge info) and gtk versions might someone guess at what you could try doing

[Comment 2 Max Lindner 2005-03-25 00:17:00 UTC]

USE="3dnow 3dnowex acl acpi amd apache2 bzlib c calendar cddb chroot devfs \
     diet dillo divx4linux dmx droproot dvd dvdread edl escreen etwin exif \
     extensions fbcon flash ftp gd geoip gimpprint gtk2 imagemagick imap \
     imlib2 ipv6 jabber jikes lufsusermount lzo maildir mime ming mmx mmx2 \
     moznoirc moznomail mozplaintext mozsvg mp3 mplayer mythtv network \
     nntp nptl nptlonly ntlm objc operanom2 pcmcia php radeon rtc samba \
     sse tidy tiff trusted unicode usb videos vim-with-x xchattext xosd \
     xvid -apm -arts -gpm -libg -motif"

*  x11-libs/gtk+
      Latest version available: 2.6.2
      Latest version installed: 2.6.2

*  x11-libs/wxGTK
      Latest version available: 2.4.2-r2
      Latest version installed: 2.4.2-r2

I dont have xchat or gaim... does tab switching work there at the same way?

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2005-03-25 02:27:19 UTC]

ctr+alt+<number> ?!

[Comment 4 Max Lindner 2005-03-27 03:47:36 UTC]

yeah, thats it :)

does anyone know how to change that binding?

thanks alot :)

[Comment 5 Sabin Iacob 2005-05-27 05:43:25 UTC]

actually, in linux it's Alt+number. I thought it was a typo, so I filed a bug 
report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286287 (patch included), 
but I was told it was the intended behavior (which sucks big time, because 
alt+any alphanumeric character can be used as access keys for links or form 
elements, and for a breadcrumb navigation numbers seem to me the natural choice 
for accels). And the thing hat sucks even more is that there is no way to change 
this via an about:config entry, so editing browser.js seems to be the only 
resolution.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-22 18:34:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> actually, in linux it's Alt+number.

Not a bug.