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gmail keyboard shortcuts stopped working today

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EventHorizon
EventHorizon

starting today somehow when I type single character [ while inside my gmail page it should delete the email as defined by gmail settings in browser however now something is capturing this keystroke and performing a find on page looking for [ this has worked correctly for years until today ... other browsers like chrome on same machine continue to work fine all addons are disabled and just did a refresh

bug is on firefox nightly 64.0a1 (2018-10-09) (64-bit)

however on firefox 62.0.3 (64-bit) its OK

ubuntu 16.04

starting today somehow when I type single character [ while inside my gmail page it should delete the email as defined by gmail settings in browser however now something is capturing this keystroke and performing a find on page looking for [ this has worked correctly for years until today ... other browsers like chrome on same machine continue to work fine all addons are disabled and just did a refresh bug is on firefox nightly 64.0a1 (2018-10-09) (64-bit) however on firefox 62.0.3 (64-bit) its OK ubuntu 16.04

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After a day of not working and a few nightly updates its working fine now !

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WestEnd
WestEnd

Never use beta for your everyday usage that is best left for bug testing only.

EventHorizon
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Chosen Solution

After a day of not working and a few nightly updates its working fine now !