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    From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 10 16:55:40 2021
    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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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Mar 11 01:15:11 2021
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    On 10/03/2021 21:55, Rhino wrote:


    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
    same Add-Ons.

    And more to the point, how do I fix this problem?

    Disable all Add-Ons and then see if FF is still "misbehaving badly". 
    After you've disabled the Add-Ons, it should "behave well" assuming
    there are no other corruptions on your system.





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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/03/2021 21:55, Rhino wrote:<br>
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    Why would I have trouble in just *one* copy of Firefox? </blockquote>
    It could be that it has some Add-Ons while other copies don't have
    the same Add-Ons.<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
    cite="mid:[email protected]">And
    more to the point, how do I fix this problem?
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    </blockquote>
    <p>Disable all Add-Ons and then see if FF is still "misbehaving
    badly".  After you've disabled the Add-Ons, it should "behave
    well" assuming there are no other corruptions on your system.</p>
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  • From TCW@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 11 06:30:08 2021
    On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:55:40 -0500, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    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?

    There's an update to 86 coming very soon that might help.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Mar 11 14:30:04 2021
    http://reddit.com/r/firefox had people complains YouTube.com web site
    not working and then Google fixed it.


    On 3/10/2021 1:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
    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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