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When I press tab, an annoying icon bar pops up in front of my window showing all my open windows, how can I stop this?

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Whenever I use the tab key on my keyboard to try to move between fields on the screen, instead of moving the curser I get an icon bar that pops up in front of the the window, showing all my open windows. I don't want this to happen anymore, please tell me how to stop it.

Whenever I use the tab key on my keyboard to try to move between fields on the screen, instead of moving the curser I get an icon bar that pops up in front of the the window, showing all my open windows. I don't want this to happen anymore, please tell me how to stop it.

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Sounds that Windows thinks that the Alt key is (still) pressed.

Does it help if you press all status keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) a few times?


Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Sounds that Windows thinks that the Alt key is (still) pressed.

Does it help if you press all status keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) a few times?


Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Thank you!