Keyboard shortcuts for moving tabs don't work

Bug #997640 reported by Tom Haddon
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Chris Coulson

Bug Description

Per http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts#w_windows-tabs I should be able to move tabs around by using Ctrl + → or Ctrl + ←, but neither works. I can move tabs around in Chrome using Ctrl + Shift + PgUp/PgDown.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 12.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mthaddon 1939 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: mthaddon 1939 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120423122624
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf2520000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:14f1506e,17aa21da,00100002 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 8
Card29.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw unknown'
   Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC (unknown)'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 1
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Console',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: release
CheckboxSubmission: e9bd5d0c11367f73e7718b1ea675f7ba
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Thu May 10 14:44:01 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.45.43.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1
 10.45.43.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.45.43.120 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=12.0/20120423122624 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-02 (98 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/07/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8DET50WW (1.20 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 4287CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET50WW(1.20):bd07/07/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4287CTO:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4287CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 4287CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

Revision history for this message
Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote :
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report

Chris, could you check if that's a firefox issue or some conflict with unity keybindings handling?

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

The documentation page you linked to now says that those key combinations are used for media seeking. It also says that tabs can be moved with Ctrl + Shift + Page Up and Ctrl + Shift + Page Down. I've tested this on Firefox 53.0.2 on Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" and can confirm it works.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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