Why would I have trouble in just *one* copy of Firefox?It could be that it has some Add-Ons while other copies don't have the
And more to the point, how do I fix this problem?
I am running FF 86.0 (64 bit) on Windows 10 Home and it is behaving very >badly today. (The timing is odd because I haven't noticed it doing an
update today, although I turned away at one point and it might
conceivably have done so.) Everything was fine yesterday and for the
last several years.
The problematic behaviour first became evident in YouTube. I was
watching a video and tried to write a comment. I clicked on "Add a
public comment" and got the expected line but when I tried to type, got
very odd behaviour.
Here's what I found:
- most letters typed perfectly normally
- the letter 'i' (or 'I') took me to the main page for that YouTube channel
- the letter 'f' (or 'F') put me in full-screen mode for the video
- the letter 'k' (or 'K') toggled play/pause as did the space bar
- the letter 'n' (but not 'N') took me to the next video in the list (I
have autoplay set to off)
- I didn't try any other characters.
I went to another website that allowed commenting and everything worked
fine there. It seems like this problem is unique to YouTube and Firefox.
This is utterly bizarre: I've never seen anything like that before.
In an attempt to isolate the scope of the problem, I tried the same
thing in Chrome and Edge and everything worked normally there. I also
tried my other laptop which has the exact same version of Firefox, and >everything worked normally there too.
Why would I have trouble in just *one* copy of Firefox? And more to the >point, how do I fix this problem?
I am running FF 86.0 (64 bit) on Windows 10 Home and it is behaving very badly today. (The timing is odd because I haven't noticed it doing an
update today, although I turned away at one point and it might
conceivably have done so.) Everything was fine yesterday and for the
last several years.
The problematic behaviour first became evident in YouTube. I was
watching a video and tried to write a comment. I clicked on "Add a
public comment" and got the expected line but when I tried to type, got
very odd behaviour.
Here's what I found:
- most letters typed perfectly normally
- the letter 'i' (or 'I') took me to the main page for that YouTube channel
- the letter 'f' (or 'F') put me in full-screen mode for the video
- the letter 'k' (or 'K') toggled play/pause as did the space bar
- the letter 'n' (but not 'N') took me to the next video in the list (I
have autoplay set to off)
- I didn't try any other characters.
I went to another website that allowed commenting and everything worked
fine there. It seems like this problem is unique to YouTube and Firefox.
This is utterly bizarre: I've never seen anything like that before.
In an attempt to isolate the scope of the problem, I tried the same
thing in Chrome and Edge and everything worked normally there. I also
tried my other laptop which has the exact same version of Firefox, and everything worked normally there too.
Why would I have trouble in just *one* copy of Firefox? And more to the point, how do I fix this problem?
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