Comments on: One Thing I Love, and One Thing I Hate About OS X http://rewindblog.com/2007/02/one-thing-i-love-and-one-thing-i-hate-about-os-x/ all the tech news unfit to print elsewhere Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:58:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: weldon http://rewindblog.com/2007/02/one-thing-i-love-and-one-thing-i-hate-about-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-14 weldon Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:21:52 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/02/one-thing-i-love-and-one-thing-i-hate-about-os-x/#comment-14 I found solutions to the issue that I hate about Mac OS X. First if you're using Safari, my friend Nick tells me that in the advanced options you can select "press tab to highlight each item..." to get that to work. My real problem was Firefox because there is no such option exposed in the preferences UI. Another suggestion from Nick, and a little digging around though and I found the solution. The option isn't even exposed in about:config, but you can override the default setting by entering your option in a user.js file. By default, this file doesn't exist so you'll need to create the file and place it inside your Firefox profile folder (Users:[user]:Application Support:Firefox:Profiles:[profile name]:user.js). Inside this user.js file, enter the line... user_pref("accessibility.tabfocus", 7); That's it! Now there's one less thing that I hate about OS X. :) I found solutions to the issue that I hate about Mac OS X. First if you’re using Safari, my friend Nick tells me that in the advanced options you can select “press tab to highlight each item…” to get that to work.

My real problem was Firefox because there is no such option exposed in the preferences UI. Another suggestion from Nick, and a little digging around though and I found the solution. The option isn’t even exposed in about:config, but you can override the default setting by entering your option in a user.js file. By default, this file doesn’t exist so you’ll need to create the file and place it inside your Firefox profile folder (Users:[user]:Application Support:Firefox:Profiles:[profile name]:user.js). Inside this user.js file, enter the line…

user_pref(“accessibility.tabfocus”, 7);

That’s it! Now there’s one less thing that I hate about OS X. :)

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