tony spencer

Thank you! I have been annoyed by this for nearly a year. Finally got frustrated enough to do a search and found your post at the top of my Google search. Very helpful!

Thanks for being one of the best answers to a vexing problem! my google search was: apple forms tab select

So simple, yet so awesome..:)

You just made my day. Seriously.

I knew there was the option I just didn’t know where and you have shown me the light!

In firefox, you must also correctly set the tabFocus option.

Basically, go to about:config and set/add accessibility.tabfocus

See details on mozillas knowledgebase: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.tabfocus

Thank you SO MUCH!

Thank you Thank you Thank you! Oh, so many thanks!!!

Holy CRAP this is awesome. I’m such a command user and just switched to mac – this has been such a pain in the but for me. YOU MADE MY DAY! Thanks.

(heck yeah, mac – MAKE THIS DEFAULT!)

Thank you, Nick – it wasn’t working for me in Firefox until I read your clarification. Now it is perfect!

I LORRRVE YOU!!!!

This was SOOOO frustrating. You are my hero. Thanks a million.

THANK YOU!!!!!! Why wouldn’t they set that as default? THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Just continuing the love fest, I can’t thank you enough, that’s been driving me nuts….

Two years later and you’re still making people happy. Thanks so much!

Thank you! I’ve been searching for a “fix” for this problem and it was so easy thanks to you! You’re right, this should be the default setting.

Manuel [comment no 3] I did a search for “osx+how to tab to submit button when entering forms” and found this as the second result.

Thanks for posting this – I brought a MBP and this is one of the things that was annoying me a little bit – I work as 3rd line support to XP users so I can fly around that system [as well as Linux].

Now all I need is to have some surgery on my fatty fingers as my typo rate has gone through the roof using my MBP!!!

Thanks a lot! Solved my long standing annoyance with mac.

“This allows me to avoid picking up the mouse and making my carpal tunnel any worse than it currently is.” … I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend getting yourself a WACOM tablet if this is a problem for you. As a web developer for the past 7 years, I’ve found it indispensable for all computer related activity. The Graphite is a good model.

Thankyou thankyou!! Its been a pet hate since day one!

thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou

I have been looking for this for over a year!

I found on my macbook I had to manually click to the password field on the yahoo mail login screen. I changed this option, and still the same result. I can tab to the field on any windows PC. Any idea what is special about the yahoo mail login screen that in safari on os x 10.5 I can’t tab?

Apple always prides themselves on how user friendly they are … WTF they have tabbing skip buttons by default is ANNOYING. I, too, use my keyboard as much as possible b/c of tendinitis in my hand. Thanks for posting how to fix this.

I’m confused by a lot of the comments on here. My system preferences for the keyboard is set to the default of ‘Text boxes and lists only’ – *not* ‘All controls’ as listed above, and I’ve never come across the issue of being unable to tab to a drop down list (in Safari, Omniweb) – Firefox seems like it may rely on the second option (though, it is not really listening to it, as it is a list)… I don’t really use firefox, unless testing something though, which is why I’ve not come across this myself, I guess.

I see it as a possible issue in Firefox, if Safari and Omniweb can both work without setting that option to select drop down lists.

Good lord. You have been sent from heaven. I have been searching for this for 7 months since getting the Mac. Today I learn this and how to stop Safari becoming the default browser too. Deep joy. Another PC Convert sees a big light!

All power to you Sir!

I routinely use a CMS on Firefox with many tabulated links – so you made my day too! Only a week since I made the switch from PC.

Bloody freaking hell, I thank you!

You freaking RULE. I’m a new mac user and this was making me INSANE. Thank you so much!!

Thanks a ton! This has been driving me nuts for the last 6 weeks after switching over, can’t believe I put up with it for this long.

Note: You have to restart your browser for the changes to take effect

Thanks for pointing this out!! Almost gone crazy while configuring MySQL using phpMyAdmin WITHOUT tabbing.
Thank you very, very much!

I just “upgraded” to Leopard a week ago, and I was seriously regretting it, and even more regretting ever having bought this Macbook, which in recent months had been gathering dust as I reaquainted myself with Windows (don’t flame me, I hate MS as much as the next person, but in many ways the interface is better thought out than with Os X) and explored various desktop environments in Linux. What was nearly the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was the fact that in Safari , if I wanted to change the folder a bookmark was going into, I had to use the touchpad, I couldn’t just hit tab to get to that option. Infuriating.

Your tip may have saved some innocent person walking past my building from getting beaned by a flying Macbook. God bless you!

@bc
Heh. I’m just glad that Macbook didn’t hit the floor after hitting someone in the head.

Awesome, thank you!
It was working normally but I guess I pressed ^F7 a week ago and it was driving me nuts!

Great, I switched last month and the more tricks I discover, the more I love OSX ;–)

O. M. G.

thank you thank you a thousand thank you’s.

Fantastic tip! I originally thought this was just something buggy going on in Firefox, then realized it was for the whole system. I am an avid Mac user and have been for a couple years now…so glad you made this post!! Thanks a bunch…

its still not working!!!
driving me up the wall, i need help!!

THANK YOU – you have saved my sanity today and here forward!!!!!

ahh this is so convenient! it’s one thing i really missed about my pc. thanks!

Thanks a ton!

You totally rock.
Apple, MAKE THIS THE DEFAULT PLEEEEEASSEE!!!!!

I just googled this out of frustration. I am so happy that I did. I’ve had my mac over a year. And even when I tell people about how happy I am with my switch to mac, I always have to mention this as my only peeve. Thanks and I’ll be spreading the word!

Thank you so very much! I just googled this and your site came up. I am so glad it did. You ahve made my night! Thanks again!

thanx. it was really annoying.

fresh switcher from ubuntu

Huh, finally got annoyed enough to Google this up. Thanks for the tip.

Perfect solution! This was so easy, and I am thrilled that I found this. It was my one drawback for Firefox.

No such option on 10.3
fuck

Thank you very much! This was driving me crazy in Google Calendar, not being able to tab to change which calendar I was adding an event to!

Default. Agreed. Bigtime.

wow.. i feel relieved.. and really dumb.. thank you for this