I use a lot of tabbed applications. OS X’s Terminal, Safari and Firefox come to mind. Each of these applications have a keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs; COMMAND+SHIFT+] to move forward and COMMAND+SHIFT+[ to move backwards.

There are some apps that don’t conform to this standard; Adium, Propane, and TextMate and it drives me nuts. Why can’t they all be standard? Well, actually they can using OS X to override the application specific command.

Below are some instructions and a screenshot of how to do this.

• In order to do this first open up the System Preferences applet and click on Keyboard & Mouse.
• Scroll down and select Application Keyboard Shortcuts
• Click the + button
• Select your application from the Application menu
• Type in the menu title of the shortcut (for example, to move forward a tab in TextMate it’s Next File Tab
• Type in the shortcut in the shortcut field and click Add