ctrl+tab

after the final and complete move from safari to firefox, i had to get used to many things. (the move took very long cos safari was really one good browser. but it was inevitable because safari started crashing like nobody's business some months ago.) i was googling for the shortcut keys for swapping between tabs in firefox, and encoutered this chap asking the same question in the firefox forum. some other guy replied that ctrl+tab will do and i got the answer i wanted. thing is, the guy with the question replied again to say that he knew about ctrl+tab but he wanted a one key access like F2 or F3. nobody replied further.

i don't quite agree with that guy. i'd rather use the keyboard than the mouse because i think the keyboard gets things done faster. i think the whole point of using keyboard access is to make things faster. and the whole point of most people using modifier keys such as shift ctrl alt fn and command is that we keep using them and their locations are like second nature to us. i might have to look to find the number 5, but i don't in the case of modifier keys. there also enough of them that the combination between these keys and a limited number of other keys could indeed excecute many many commands. therefore, even if it involves 2 keys instead of one, it's still faster.