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Firefox handling of selected text in fields is entirely broken

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There appears to be something completely broken in the latest Firefox UI for me. Its making me want to throw my laptop out the window.

When I have text selected in fields such as the address bar, or fields, sometimes rather than 'overwriting' the selection, it appends it. Or sometimes when I select all the text in a field and paste, I end up with the original selection appended by the pasted text, or vice-versa. It makes interacting with websites via the keyboard absolutely pointless in this browser.

Main affected site for me has been the amazon web services console, which is my main use-case for Firefox due to containers, however apparently Chrome now has a parallel function for that, so I'll spend the rest of the night looking that one up, since Chrome is not exhibiting this issue.

There appears to be something completely broken in the latest Firefox UI for me. Its making me want to throw my laptop out the window. When I have text selected in fields such as the address bar, or fields, sometimes rather than 'overwriting' the selection, it appends it. Or sometimes when I select all the text in a field and paste, I end up with the original selection appended by the pasted text, or vice-versa. It makes interacting with websites via the keyboard absolutely pointless in this browser. Main affected site for me has been the amazon web services console, which is my main use-case for Firefox due to containers, however apparently Chrome now has a parallel function for that, so I'll spend the rest of the night looking that one up, since Chrome is not exhibiting this issue.