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

> 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