how to fix tabbing in firefox for mac
If you’re using Firefox for Mac, you’ve probably noticed an annoying “feature”: when you’re tabbing through a form, it skips right over drop-down boxes and some other elements. Safari does the same thing. This is annoying, because you have to use the mouse to fill out a form.
The reason for Firefox’s behavior, according to this Bugzilla comment, is that they’re trying to emulate Safari’s behavior (read: “the Mac way”). If you read through the first comment on that bug, you’ll see that you can change this setting in Firefox using good ol’ about:config.
Search for accessibility:tabfocus, and set the value to something higher. It’s a 3-bit field, so valid values are 0-7 (the default is 1). I set mine to 7, so that Firefox happily tabs through everything on a page (including links). #