Tab behavior

Tabs not behaving normal. Just installed v11. Tabs open wherever they wish, and when a tab closes, the neighbor tabs do NOT move left as in 3.6. How does one remove the tab groups or whatever is not keeping tabs against the left-most edge of the tab bar?

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can also try to reset the preferences.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Resetting+preferences

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How do I restore tab behavior back to the way it was in FF 3.5??

I just upgraded to FF 3.6.13, I generally wait to upgrade until any new bugs have been identified and corrected. In FF 3.5, when I opened a new tab from a link, the new tab appeared to the right of the current tab (NOT at the very end of the tab bar) and the focus STAYED ON THE CURRENT TAB. If I opened multiple new tabs, they each opened to the right of the previously opened new tab, as in <original tab sequence> Yahoo Facebook GMail MyBlog <New tab sequence after opening links> Yahoo Facebook NewFBLink1 NewFBLink2 NewFBLink3 NewFBLink4 GMail MyBlog, with the focus remaining on the CURRENT TAB (in this example Facebook, from which I was opening the links). In 3.6.13, the tabs SOMETIMES open to the right of the current tab, sometimes at the end of the tab bar, and no matter how I fiddle the settings, I cannot make them CONSISTENT. Have tried the extensions 'Tab Mix Plus' and 'New Tab at End' - these do not give me consistent behavior - sometimes they do as I wish, sometimes not. In addition, sometimes the focus stays on the current tab (which is what I want) - sometimes the focus changes to the new tab just opened, sometimes it stays on the current tab until I've opened 3 or 4 new tabs, then jumps to one of the new ones. In the 'options', I do NOT have 'when I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately' checked; yet sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. HOW do I achieve consistent behavior?? This is why I don't upgrade often. Very frustrating. I have not changed any plugins, other than trying Tab Mix Plus and New Tabs at End after upgrading to 3.6.13, once I realized that the tab behavior was not consistent. How can I go back to FF 3.5 ???

First of all, sometimes Extensions can interfere with one another. That '''''MAY''''' be the case with your using both Tab Mix Plus and New Tabs at End. They both have a function that you can set for where new tabs appear. TMP has options concerning focus on new tabs.
My suggestions are:
#Un-install New Tabs at End (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions, click New Tabs at End, click Uninstall, then exit and restart Firefox).
#*If using no other extension that affect where tabs appear (to the right of current tab or at end of all open tabs), a simple preference change can affect that change for you, and you have one less extension to be concerned with. I have also made this change as TMP did not have the Focus options to do this when the "new tab at end" feature first appeared or when I first started using the version of Firefox in which this feature appeared:
#*#Type '''about:config''' in the URL bar and press the Enter key.
#*#*See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
#*#If you see the warning, accept it (promise to be careful).
#*#Filter = browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent
#*#Look at the "Value" column ('''false'''=open at end, '''true'''=open after current tab); Value = true is the default.
#*#Double-click that preference to toggle the value from true to false, or false to true
#*#Restart Firefox (File > Restart Firefox)
#*#See: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/02/01/change-firefox-to-open-new-tab-at-far-right-end-of-tabbar-disable-insert-next-to-current-active-tab/
#Tab Mix Plus settings
#*Open the Tab Mix Plus Options (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions, click Tab Mix Plus, click Options)
#*Click on Events > Tab Opening
#*#Place a check mark before "Open new tabs next to current one"
#*#I have checked "Open other tabs next to current one"
#*##I have un-checked "Only if related to current tab"
#*##I have un-checked "Change opening order"
#*#I have checked "Open duplicated tabs next to original"
#*Click Events > Tab Focus
#*#If you ALWAYS want to stay on the current tab and let the new tabs open in the background, un-check everything. These selections will/should over-ride Tools > Options > Tabs, "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately"
See if the above changes give you the results you are seeking. Tab Mix Plus has lots of options. You may need to change one or two settings at a time until it behaves the way you desire. Keep track of the changes you make so that you can easily re-trace/re-set when the results are not what you want.

The new tab behavior is driving me nuts. It keeps re-centering on tabs nearest the start of the list when I move a tab. How do I change this?

The new tab behavior is driving me nuts. It keeps re-centering on tabs nearest the start of the list when I move a tab. How do I change this?
I don't want to download an app. I would rather add a new string in about config or just change of the ones in there to false. It's making my work life rather difficult, to be forced to go all the way back to the end of my list after moving one tab just to have to do it again. I mean it's to the point where I might consider changing browsers if they had tab scroll bars.
Edit: At this point I will download any app. Please make this stupid feature stop.

The result of setting up that code will do exactly as you described: the tabs will be crowded together. I had not noticed any change in behaviour of Firefox with tabs because all the tabs are crowded together, so they cannot scroll, and I very seldom move tabs.

Bizarre tabs behavior

After the 10.4.11 update Safari has had very bizarre tabs behavior.
http://www.99.se/attachments/safari/14197d1195126743-safari-3-bugg-bild-2.png
http://www.99.se/attachments/safari/14211d1195172108-safari-3-bugg-bild-1.png
http://www.99.se/attachments/safari/14212d1195172234-safari-3-bugg-bild-5.png
The active image isn't showing, or shows up completely screwed up. I've tried reverting to Safari 2, which fixed the problem, but when reapplying the update the problem comes back. I've tried every magic script I know to repair the system.
I have no plug-ins whatsoever.
Any ideas?

Sorry, no ideas, but I have an odd situation, too. When working with multiple tabs, I click a link that opens a new window, but it doesn't open a new window. It opens in oldest tab with the header (and URL) of the old web page, but the body being the pop-up.
Go figure that one out!

JTable Tab Behavior

Hi,
after some weeks learning swing, i am proud to finish my first project, which makes sense (not Apps like "Hello World"...).
I just got two problems left, which i need help for.
The first and more important problem is the tab behavior in a JTable.
The default behavior is that the focused cells change
Left-To-Right and then Top-To-Bottom
Is there a way to make the focus change
Top-To-Bottom and then Left-To-Right?
I tried a bit with a KexListener, but there must be a better solution...
private void table_keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
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}Although there seem to be many topics adressing this problem in the forum, I couldn't really find an answer ;-(
The second problem, i can't solve on my own, is that JTable seems to handle UTF-16 in a wrong way (i cant' use the german umlaute ä ö ü Ä .... with a JTable
Niko

Works like a charm....
I also was able to fix the german Umlaute Problem (you should always set a LOCALE Variable in Gentoo Linux ;-)
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How to get JTable's default TAB behavior and apply it to another key ?

Is there any way to get Table's default behavior of one key say TAB & apply it to the another key say ENTER?
Means I want to disable JTable's default behavior of ENTER key & I want ENTER key should act like TAB.

Take a look at this.
[http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/special_report/kestrel/keybindings.html]

Switching tab behavior in JTextArea

I think by default Multiline text areas in windows will tab to the next focusable component by pressing the tab button and will create a tab character within the text area by pressing ctrl-tab. JTextArea has the opposite behavior. Does anyone know how to make JTextArea have the default windows behavior? I've looked all over this site for two days and have tried many of the suggestions and many of my own ideas without being able to get this work. Please help if you can.
porcaree

i do have a similar problem.
can u suggest me u r ideas.
thanks
vijay

Word wrapping: Tab behavior in TLF editor

Hi,
I have created an editor using TLF which has word-wrapping enabled. The editor also takes in the Tab key and places it at prober position. In case you insert Tab at the beginning of the line except for the first line then the TAB is inserted in the previous line and it does not get wrapped.
Is there any way in which I can acheive word wrapping for Tabs? I have observed similar behavior for SPACE as well.
Why is such a behavior in the both the cases?

We are using the TLF bundled with Flex 4.1.0.16076, latest production release. You can verify the problem here in this demo:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/
Type two lines, make sure they wrap. At the beginning of the second line press the tab key multiple times. The tabs will stack up on the end of the first line.
If this is fixed in a newer version of TLF, is it safe to use with flex 4.1?
Thanks,
Ryan

Would like tab behavior to be same as with IE when clicking on links in Bookmarks Toolbar

In IE, when I click on a Bookmarks Toolbar link, it opens that link in the tab in which I am currently working. In Firefox, however, it always opens a new tab. I would prefer having Firefox behave such that it only opens a new tab when I specifically instruct it to do so, or when a URL links to a page that would ordinarily open a new window (in which case I prefer it open a new tab instead -- and I found where =that= setting is but has no effect on my particular problem).
Note: I may have asked this before but I have either lost the information, or made the change once in my system and forgot about it. I'm setting up a newly-purchased laptop after my "old faithful" gave up the ghost after four long and satisfying years of service. I shall miss it greatly.

Hello Steve.
Firefox normal behavior is to open bookmarks in the current tab. You may be having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?
Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not coming from one of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode safe mode] and select ''Disable all add-ons''. If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes this article] for information about troubleshooting extensions and theme. You can troubleshoot plugins the same way.
If you want support for one of your add-ons, you'll need to contact its author.

Change keyboard tab behavior

This one is tough to search for, with so much duplicity of meaning in the words key, tab, navigate, etc.
I have a tabular form where the optimal way to navigate is to go down each column instead of across each row; i.e. when the tab key is pressed, I want the focus to change from the current cell to the cell in the same column but immediately below the current cell.
I looked at html tabindex, and I'm not sure how to make that work.
So: can tabindex be used to change the navigation behavior of the tab key? Or, is there another way to change the tab key behavior to go column by column instead of row by row?
TIA.
Rick.

Rick - I know that is possible (in theory) to trap the keystroke using JavaScript and replace it (or, do a focus() call or similar to move the focus to another element), but figuring out where you are in the table can get quite hairy.
To be honest, it's one of these things we've been meaning to implement on one of our apps (our issue is moving to the next element when the user presses ENTER), but haven't got round to yet.
I'd therefore be very interested to hear if you crack it (either using JS or some other method).
Cheers,
John.

Odd Tab Behavior in InDesign CS5

I've used CS2 for quite a few years now, but decided it was time to upgrade to CS5. Doing so in the middle of a big book layout project was PROBABLY not the best idea.
Essentially, I have laid out a document in this fashion:
The headings are set 0.0" to the left of the column
The body text is set to 0.05" from the left side of the column by using the indent marker on the left side of the tabs window. (The stacked double-arrow thing)
I have created a tab stop for paragraphs to begin at 0.15" from the left. I did this instead of a pragraph indent because I wish for the first paragraph to be flush with the left of the rest of the text.
This worked just fine under CS2, but when I open the document in CS5, the tab character mysteriously DOES NOT INDENT the text for no reason I can understand. Even more oddly, if I adjust the body text indent to another number, say, 0.0525", the tab indent miraculously works...but ONLY for the left hand column. The right hand column, even adjusted, will never show the indent.
Also, even if I set the tab stop to something ridulous, like 1", all it accomplishes is making the line of the paragraph with the tab indent really stranglely justified, like:
A word and spaces
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
A screenshot of the issue: http://www.wiseturtle.com/InDesignTabs.gif
Thanks in advance,
Clay

There are occasional reports of oddities when converting legacy docs to CS5. Export from the original version to .inx and open that in CS5, save as a new file with a new name (don't overwrite the old files -- there's no way for you to go back) and build a new Book in CS5.
As far as the indents, the correct way to handle this would be to make edit the body paragraph style to lose the tab and use a first line indent (you can use the GREP expression ^\t to find leading tabs and replace with nothing in the GREP Find/Change iin CS5), then make a second style for the first paragraph based onthe body style, but without the fisrt line indent, then sect the next style for that to the body style.

4.0.3 Tab behavior a mess again...

as an update to this post: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10181063
i had concluded that tabs worked as expected when i rebooted and restarted safari a few times. turns out this is not the case. the situation is weird, as it now has defined parameters regarding when it happens.
as far as i can tell, the ability to close a tab within an open window via command-w is only available when not in the primary window. it appears to work well when i have multiple window open, and only in windows opened after the first one.
if i start up safari, open a few tabs of sites, and command-w, i get the warning about closing a window with multiple tabs. if i then open a new window, and within it a bunch of sites in tabs, it works as expected. closing each tab via command-w for each, including the final tab which at that point is just the window (assuming that you don't have the tab bar always visible).
this is very un-mac-like. i want to assume that it's a bug. anyone else experience this or able to reproduce the situation?
thanks,
- jeremy

No I hadn't and no I don't
However, I did just download and install the appropriate version of Saft for Safari 4 on Tiger and that seems to have cleared up the issue. Or, at the very least, hidden it.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Yours,
Neal

Opening a site from Bookmark Toolbar in a new tab steals focus eventhough all new tab behaviors are set to not steal focus.

When I open a site from my [Bookmarks Toolbar] (feeds) in a new tab, the site is opened in a new tab and FF switches to it.
I have already unchecked [Options]~>[Tabs]~>["When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately."].
I have also set [browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground] to true.
The bookmarks/feeds open new tabs in the background properly, but opening the site from the bookmark toolbar does not.
Is this a bug? Is there a setting I am missing to fix this?
Example of what is happening now:
{Left Click} [Bookmarks Toolbar]
{Mouseover} [xkcd.com] (expand feed folder)
{Middle Click} [Open "xkcd.com"] (at top of list of feed links)
xkcd.com site now opens in a new tab and FF switches to it.
I want the site to open the in a new tab in the background like the feed links already do with my settings.

Works for me if I middle-click a bookmark on the Bookmarks Toolbar and browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground is set to true.
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Correct TAB behavior in textinput

Just a little question.
I have may sprites with textinput flash's.
I'd like to behave as all normal fields: when the user presses TAB on the keyboard, the focus must go to the next field.
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance.

Shylock74 wrote:
Thanks, but not feasible.
All 75+ fields are generated realtime (I developed a form/survey middleware to create field at runtime).
It's always better for the "health" of your project to have a single SWF sprite per frame.
Anyway, if you have a bunch of flash sprites, you need a frame script with counter that controls the "N" variable.
_movie.keyboardFocusSprite = N
So depending on your frame structure, N increments with every TAB pressed.
cheers

Abiword shift+tab behavior?

Does anybody know how to set
Shift+tab
to decrease indent like it does in other word processors? I find it strange that I have to use backspace to decrease the indent (which is also annoying because backspace is typically use to delete the bullet at the current indentation). Using shift+tab doesn't do anything.
I cant find info anywhere and i get the feeling this is something only im experiencing.. I'm on abiword 2.4.6.

Kdelperuto wrote:
I do not know..For an example...if you are in Word or Pages and you press tab to indent..I used to press Shift and then tab to undo such indent if it isn't what I was going for in the page set up. When I press the combination, it no longer undos the indent, it keeps indenting. Howver, the shift works to capitalize a letter and the tab works to indent normally.
try command Z to undo your tab indent in Pages.

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