Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 14:04 on 16 Mar 2007
On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> That's a Mac thing, Firefox is just behaving like a native app.  You 
> can
> change this behavior system wide.  I discovered that there's an option 
> hidden
> in System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts for "In
> windows and dialogs, press Tab to move the keyboard focus between... 
> [Text
> boxes and lists], [All controls]".  Change it to "All controls" and 
> you'll
> have the behavior you desire.  I'm not sure yet if I like it.

There was a lot of behind-the-scenes flamage to get the Mozilla people 
to notice this option and to actually honor it.

> Why they hid this in "Keyboard Shortcuts" I have no idea.

Every release of OS X has hidden more stuff in really fucked up places 
in Preferences.

The one that pissed me off most was apparently losing my list of 
default applications to run when I log in. I discovered they'd moved 
that, for some utterly bizarre reason, into the account settings. 
Apparently because the list of apps you always run is something you set 
on a per account basis. The fact that just about everything ELSE in 
Preferences is ALSO set on a per account basis and therefor ALSO should 
be hidden in account settings has thankfully escaped their notice... 
but I'm still half-expecting that one day I'll install a new version of 
Mac OS and find there's only one icon left in Preferences - "Accounts 
and Settings".

There's stuff above here

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