Closed
Bug 626101
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Add keyboard shortcut to pin tabs
Categories
(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)
Firefox
Keyboard Navigation
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: sdrocking, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Presently there is no way to do it from the keyboard AFAIK.
Reproducible: Always
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Updated•14 years ago
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Blocks: pinnedtabs
Comment 1•14 years ago
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If you have a keyboard button that brings up a context menu (usually between Alt Gr and right ctrl) then the following should work if the main page has focus.
F6|context menu key|p (f6 to focus tab, context menu,p to pin as app tab)
Is this bug about a single shortcut rather than a sequence of key presses?
Component: Tabbed Browser → Keyboard Navigation
QA Contact: tabbed.browser → keyboard.navigation
Version: unspecified → Trunk
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Comment 2•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1)
> If you have a keyboard button that brings up a context menu (usually between
> Alt Gr and right ctrl) then the following should work if the main page has
> focus.
> F6|context menu key|p (f6 to focus tab, context menu,p to pin as app tab)
>
> Is this bug about a single shortcut rather than a sequence of key presses?
I forgot that F6 is there. But wouldn't it be changed to focus location bar? Also few people would do it this way.
Comment 3•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #2)
> I forgot that F6 is there. But wouldn't it be changed to focus location bar?
> Also few people would do it this way.
F6 actually focuses the next focusable element, which, if the page content is focused, happens to be the active tab. Judging by the age of bug 249735 this won't get changed anytime soon.
There was some desire to keep app tabs relatively 'hard' to create (consciously right click on tab and select the menu option). It is not an action that will only be done once per app and they are meant to be equally hard to destroy. A single keyboard shortcut to pin a tab may not be desired by UX.
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Updated•14 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 4•7 years ago
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(In reply to Luke Iliffe (Harlequin99) from comment #3)
> F6 actually focuses the next focusable element, which, if the page content
> is focused, happens to be the active tab.
I don't recall that ever being the case. It's certainly not the case today. F6 goes to the location bar and the next frame in the current web page; at no point does it select any tabs.
> There was some desire to keep app tabs relatively 'hard' to create
Well then, mission accomplished: this feature is indeed extremely inconvenient to use via keyboard shortcuts:
1. Alt+D, Ctrl+L or F6 to go to the location bar.
2. Shift+Tab to focus the identity button.
3. Shift+Tab again to focus the current tab.
4. Application key to bring up the context menu.
5. p to pin the tab.
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