Insert Tabs in a Firefox Text-Field

When I'm typing away in the gmail web interface, I sometimes find myself wishing there was an easy, instant way to insert a 'TAB'-character into the field. As I'm sure everyone knows, the 'TAB' key in the browser advances the cursor through fields; you can't get it to insert that 'TAB' character even with ALT-CTRL-SHIFT or any combination. This would come in handy, for example, when I was informing a customer of his/her temporary login credentials, I want a way to quickly write:

username:	bob
passwd:		qwerty

The text is all nicely aligned, and I've got myself a poor man's table. Sounds good, right?

Well, there's a Firefox extension that does just this, called Tabinta. It lets you easily assign another key to insert a 'TAB'-character. I chose ` (that's the key just to the left of the '1' key, just above the TAB key).

I hope that's helpful.

cheers