A week ago I started my new job at YouTube. Most people here use Macs so I got a nice shiny new MacBook Pro to work on. I’ve been using Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) almost exclusively for about 4 years now and Windows before that, so I’ve been quickly getting up to speed on using my new Mac.

One of my first major annoyances was that some form controls weren’t keyboard navigable. Filling out web forms was frustrating since hitting Tab would skip past drop-down fields, and when dialogs popped up and I didn’t want to respond with the default button I had to switch over to the mouse instead of just tabbing to the right one.

Fortunately I found these instructions on changing this behavior. Now I can use the keyboard to quickly navigate these inputs.

More on my Mac switch to come.