Harmful auto-format feature: Firefox hijacks typing to force weird numbered lists in WhatsApp & AI chats
Hello, I am dealing with a quite frustrating issue, and I literally cannot do anything to stop it from ruining my messages. Whenever I manually type in WhatsApp Web or AI… (আরও পড়ুন)
Hello,
I am dealing with a quite frustrating issue, and I literally cannot do anything to stop it from ruining my messages.
Whenever I manually type in WhatsApp Web or AI chats (like ChatGPT or Claude), Firefox completely hijacks my text box. As soon as I start a line by typing "1", a period, and a single space ("1. "), the browser forces my text into an auto-formatted numbered list.
This isn't just unhelpful; I see it as a genuinely harmful feature. The formatting it forces on me is weird and broken—it frequently adds massive, irrelevant paragraph gaps between list items, completely messing everything up.
I am completely stuck because standard fixes do not work:
If I press Ctrl + Z to undo the auto-formatting, it also deletes the space I typed.
I am not pasting anything; this happens the millisecond I type the spacebar from scratch.
It feels awful to have my manual typing hijacked like this. Users should be able to type a simple number and a period without the browser transforming it into a broken HTML list.
Is there an about:config setting or any way to completely disable this auto-formatting feature so I can just type normally again?
Thank you.