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Latest update wrecked my workflow with alt+shift+arrow overwrite

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Hello!

I am a heavy user of Firefox: daily & around 8 hours a day.

I usually use alt+shift+left/right-arrow to select a few words to the right / to the left. With the latest update (mandatory because this is a work-administered) laptop, the new behavior is that tabs are changed.

I want any solution to revert this to standard (past) behavior (preferably not an extension). Looked around in about:config but could not find anything to toggle on/off.

This is highly annoying as I've had this workflow for literally years. Even opening this ticket I encountered the issue more than 3 times as I was phrasing the message and had to delete & rewrite some stuff while also have other tabs open in the same Firefox window.

Would highly appreciate your timely response!

Thanks a lot! -- John

Hello! I am a heavy user of Firefox: daily & around 8 hours a day. I usually use alt+shift+left/right-arrow to select a few words to the right / to the left. With the latest update (mandatory because this is a work-administered) laptop, the new behavior is that tabs are changed. I want any solution to revert this to standard (past) behavior (preferably not an extension). Looked around in about:config but could not find anything to toggle on/off. This is highly annoying as I've had this workflow for literally years. Even opening this ticket I encountered the issue more than 3 times as I was phrasing the message and had to delete & rewrite some stuff while also have other tabs open in the same Firefox window. Would highly appreciate your timely response! Thanks a lot! -- John

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Ayo thanks a lot for the fast response! didn't expect it to be frank, my bad.

Yes, I do have the Tree Stye Tabs extension, but I ve been having it enabled for quite some time and no issue so far. Weird...

I ll check the link, thanks!

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ionut_mntn, do you use the Tree Style Tabs add-on? If so then this is a known issue and there is more discussion and further links here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1449863

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Ayo thanks a lot for the fast response! didn't expect it to be frank, my bad.

Yes, I do have the Tree Stye Tabs extension, but I ve been having it enabled for quite some time and no issue so far. Weird...

I ll check the link, thanks!

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Should we close & mark my question as duplicate?

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ionut_mntn, glad you found an explanation. I don't think that There is any need to take further action in this thread. The auto-close system will close this in time.

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