Firefox Tabbing Problems on List Boxes
Sunday, July 29th, 2007, 1:38 amMy favorite web browser by far is Firefox for many reasons. It is one of the most standards compatible browser in existence, it has very useful add-ons (i.e. Firebug), and it is almost completely customizable. However, I found one flaw this week that was absolute driving me insane. Whenever I encountered a web form I could tab over every text field but not drop down lists or list boxes (normally used in contact forms asking for state or country you live in). Firefox would skip right over these form elements as if they never existed on the page!
Was this a regular Mac thing? I tested the same pages using Safari and Camino and tabbing was not an issue. I also tested Firefox on a Windows machine and noticed the problem did not exist there either. It was only happening on Firefox installed on Macs. I was determined to find out what was going on.
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