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Re: Tab and Enter Keys Broken : Firebug or Firefox?

by Stereo :: Rate this Message:

I also have experienced this bug; after using firebug for a while, the
ability to tab through forms, hit enter to "submit" a form, or
otherwise use tab navigate (such as from the url/location field to the
search field in the firefox window). In fact, in typing this response
in the textarea box, I cannot press return to go to a new line!
Holding shift does the trick for getting the return key to trigger,
but no luck with tab no matter what.

My best guess is that firebug is "capturing" focus of our tab- and
enter- key presses.

I would love to hear from others if they have any ideas about how to
resolve this instead of opening up a new browser window.

On Apr 26, 5:16 pm, Bart Szyszka <bartific...@...> wrote:

> > I actually poked around a bit in the Firefox mozilla bug lists and
> > there's several bugs related to keyboard issues such as this. So I'd
> > say it's a Firefox issue.
>
> All the bugs I've seen don't affect the keyboard in exactly this
> way. Most of them involve keyboard shortcuts being locked up
> if Firefox has focus on Flash content. With this problem, it's
> just my Enter andTabkeys that stop working even when there's
> no Flash in any tabs. I uninstalled Firebug for two days and had
> NO problems with my Enter/Tabkeys at all. Then today I installed
> it again and five minutes later my Enter key was locked up (very
> annoying in the Address bar). If I enable the Go button (I usually
> disable it) it also stops working when I click it with my mouse.
>
> I feel like this happens most often when I have a lot of tabs open?
> This bug is hard to track down, though.
>
> - Bart

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