Tab key to URL box

[David Faure]

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On Friday 18 October 2002 09:32, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> On Friday 18 October 2002 01:53, Chris,Nalesnik wrote:
> > (Not subscribed)
> >
> > It seems that browsing would be a lot easier if pressing the tab key once
> > on a freshly loaded page would place focus on the URL box. After the
> > initial press, it would then scroll through the elements of the page you
> > are browsing.
> 
> I agree a key stroke to place focus on the URL box is a good idea.

Alt+o does exactly that (since the o of "Location" is underlined)
(The shortcut can vary depending on your language, of course).

> In Mozilla the URL box is also in the keyboard focus cycle. 
In Konq too.

> It can be accessed by typing 
> <shift><tab> on a fresh page. Pressing <shift><tab> again moves focus to the 
> last link on a page.
Seems to me that the same works in Konqueror.

> In addition to this one could consider binding <ctrl>-o to moving focus to the 
> URL box and selecting all text therein. I don't see any added value in the 
> dialog that is now bound to <ctrl>-o. In fact, the URL box is more useful.

I always wondered too, but since we did get reports about the Open Location
box, people are apparently using it. This is sort of a Netscape-ism, which has
such a box too. I guess it's useful for people who prefer using a file dialog
than a file manager :)

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