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Input focus on the “Try Again” button for network errors

Sometimes it happens that instead of the expected site you see an error message in Firefox. If the error is not caused by a typo in the domain name, but by disconnecting by timeout (it happens if the remote server is overloaded), then most often it is appropriate to click on the “Try again” button (in Russian translation, it seems, “Try again”): A new attempt to connect to the same server at the same URL may be more successful than the previous one.

Long ago, in July 2005, when the use of Firefox 1.0 was common, I got the idea: why not make sure that this button on the error page immediately had input focus - and then there would be no need to stretch and press the mouse, and it will be enough to click on the "Enter" or the space. (I don’t even know what is simpler: “Enter” is wider, the space is longer - but both of these keys are simpler than the mouse.)

In January 2012, Firefox authors acted on my advice ( bug 301471 in Mozilla’s bugzilla) and provided the appropriate behavior in Firefox 12. Firefox’s release of the twelfth version is expected to take place on the twentieth of April, but the beta version will appear much earlier: there are now days left ten.
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This is nothing compared to the past years.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/139362/


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