I am a fairly recent “switcher“. It has been a very great and relatively painless experience, but one little annoyance that I had however was that in OS X browsers I couldn’t tab on my keyboard to the drop-down fields in forms the same way I could in Windows. Filling out forms are already such a tedious task, so when I had to take my hands from my keyboard to move my mouse every time I encountered a drop-down it became even more annoying.  I had asked veteran Mac users about this annoyance in the past , but no one knew of a solution. I finally ran across the simple little solution the other day, so I thought I’d share it:

Go to System Preferences » choose Keyboard & Mouse » select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab » then just select “All controls” from the Full keyboard access setting at the bottom as shown in the screen shot below.

You may need to restart your browser before it kicks in. Enjoy!