Comments on: Why Doesn’t Tab Work for Drop-down Controls in Firefox on OS X?

By: anima

anima — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:43:52 +0000

width of a drop down box is working fine in firefox on windows but width is reducing on mac machine.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:20:15 +0000

Great tip! Works like a charm through the GUI, but for some reason Ctrl+F7 does not work for me – any idea why that might be (OS-X 10.5.7)?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:34:43 +0000

It’s a fix, but it’s not the problem. That default behavior of ‘Text boxes and list only’ allows you to choose ‘list’ aka ‘drop down menus’ in Safari and with every other Mac browser I can think of other than FF. So it leads me to believe it’s the way FF is implementing it.

The problem if you choose “all controls” is you have to tab through every single link as well.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:27:17 +0000

Thank you so much!

I recently switched to Mac last October and this is the one feature that had been driving me crazy and that I preferred in Windows! This is awesome!!

Thanks Again!

By: Scott Weaver

Scott Weaver — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:03:02 +0000

Wow, thank you tons!

I honestly thought it was just something I had to deal with on my Mac until I read this post.

Thank you for saving me hours of frustration!

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:05:44 +0000

howtogeek++
So simple, and yet so maddening when you only think to check Firefox’s own preferences. Thanks for the quality-of-internet-browsing-life improvement.

By: doug no.2

doug no.2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:14:42 +0000

Thanks, you are the man! Been driving me crazy and I never bothered to check it out til just now and your site popped right up with the answer. Perfect!

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:40:03 +0000

This has driven me nuts for years. Thank you. One question… Why is this the default setting? It makes no sense. Does anyone know why it is this way? This is similar to the whole right-click mouse issue with Macs (there is the control key workaround). It seems like Mac-o-philes (which I want to be) take pride in annoying settings that drive the rest of us CRAZY.

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:01:28 +0000

I can’t add much more than has already been said…but THANK YOU nonetheless!

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:26:08 +0000

THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts!