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 caused not by a typo in the domain name, but by a connection break by timeout (it happens if the remote server is overloaded), then most often it is appropriate to click on the “Try again” button (in the Russian translation, it seems, “Try again”): a new attempt to connect to the same server using the same URL may be more successful than the previous one.

Once upon a time, in July 2005, when using Firefox 1.0 was commonplace, it occurred to me: why not make this button on the error page immediately have input focus - and then there will be no need to stretch and click the mouse, but it will be enough to click on "Enter"or space bar. (I don’t even know which is simpler: “Enter” is wider, the space is longer - but both of these keys are simpler than a mouse.)

In January 2012, Firefox authors acted on my advice ( bug 301471 in Mozilla's bugzilla) and ensured appropriate behavior in Firefox 12 The release of the twelfth version of Firefox is expected to be scheduled on the twentieth of April, but the beta version will appear much earlier: there are now ten days left before it.

This is nothing compared to the past years.