Can't use Ctrl(+shift)+tab to cycle through tabs

[Mirek2]

On the most commonly used browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, ...) <Control>+<Tab> and <Control>+<Shift>+<Tab> are the standard shortcuts used for cycling through tabs. It would be great if Midori implemented these by default.

[Allen Lowe (lallenlowe)]

Ctrl + pagedown is the correct keystroke

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I do understand that people coming from Windows are used to Ctrl+Tab. The problem is that this conflicts with focus switching which is the same shortcut and it would become impossible to "leave" a web page containing text areas without that shortcut doing what it does.

Innovate ideas are welcome, I am hearing this complaint often enough and I don't have a solution to offer aside from 'change it yourself'.

[André Stösel (ivaldi)]

FYI: there is an extension called "History List" which allows you to switch tabs with Ctrl+Tab sorted by last usage.

[Mirek2 (mazelm-gmail)]

@Allen: Unfortunately, there's no "PageDown" key on my netbook. (It also isn't present on Apple keyboards and won't be present on keyboards for Chrome OS computers.)

@Christian: I'm actually coming from Ubuntu (to Linux Mint DE with LXDE as an alternative desktop). I've been using Chrome ever since it was released for Linux, and before that, I used Firefox, both of which use the <Ctrl>-<Tab> shortcut by default. I don't understand why Midori can't simply use the shortcuts that Firefox and Chrome use: <Tab> to switch focus, <Shift>+<Tab> to switch focus in the other direction.

@André: Thanks for the tip. Would it be possible to modify this to cycle through tabs by order in the tab bar?

[André Stösel (ivaldi)]

No, the benefit of this extension is the sorting based on the last usage.
But you can still activate the "Shortcuts" extension and change the default shortcut.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Mirek, let's go with a specific example. Open http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tryit/full.php and try to use Tab to switch focus inside the page - how do you get out of the text area once you're in it?

I should note my usual assumption is that 95% of Linux laptops have PageUp and PageDown keys. If that is changing it would certainly make this more urgent than I felt it was.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I decided I consider lack of keys a crucial argument, so I implemented the shortcuts as aliases. As a side effect users of multiple browsers will be happy. However it won't be shown as a hotkey in the editor.