Firefox 3.5 Switching Tabs

Win7User512 · 10 Jul 2009

In previous versions, you could give focus to a single tab (like clicking on it) and then use the arrow keys to toggle between tabs.

I can't do that in 3.5, did they take that out or did they just change the way it's done?

mikinho · 10 Jul 2009

Are you looking for functionality past just control-tab and control-shift-tab?

Win7User512 · 10 Jul 2009

mikinho said:

Are you looking for functionality past just control-tab and control-shift-tab?

Wow. Thanks, that is exactly what I'm looking for. I wish they had kept the arrows as an option. But this works just as well.

John Henry · 11 Jul 2009

In alternative you can use CTRL+1, 2, 3, 4 and so on.

happinessiseasy · 11 Jul 2009

Wow, there are a lot of ways to do this. I use Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown

Win7User512 · 11 Jul 2009

happinessiseasy said:

Wow, there are a lot of ways to do this. I use Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown

HAHA. That works well too.

BuzWeaver · 11 Jul 2009

My mouse does a great job too.

Win7User512 · 11 Jul 2009

BuzWeaver said:

My mouse does a great job too.

Mine does a fantastic job...when I have it with me. I use a laptop, and try to use the touchpad as seldom as possible.

mikinho · 11 Jul 2009

No method is better than any other, essentially it is personally preference, but I wanted to mention that any Multiple Document Interface application in Windows (MDI) will use Ctrl-Tab\Shift-Ctrl-Tab as a standard (part of the underlying base object) to navigate between documents.

Some other useful standard shortcuts are listed at: Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

Windows 7 introduced a lot more as well.

ikilledkenny · 11 Jul 2009

Can you do Windows+Tab? I think you can do it in IE.