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You will not see a single quote in this thread. I have instead of I(quote)ve, we are instead of we(quote)re. Why? Because if I dare hit the single quote key, it takes me right to a search function.

I have had this happen more than once, and I do not know what causes it or how I get out of it. I am using Mozilla.

Any clues as to what is going on?

It jumps right to the page search if you're not in a text box/input field. I don't know what would cause it. I'm guessing if you restart it'll fix it.

Kyle wrote:It jumps right to the page search if you're not in a text box/input field. I don't know what would cause it. I'm guessing if you restart it'll fix it.

Yes, you are typing a message and type in a single quote and immediately go to the search box.

So, typing "I'm doing fine" is equivalent to typing "I" followed by clicking Edit and then Find in this Page, and tying in "m doing fine" in the search box.

I logged out and logged back in and it's ok now, but it's happened to me before.

This is a quality rant though. I know how frustrating stuff like this can be. I used to have a similar problem with a different program... can't remember what the exact parameters were, but it drove me absolutely crazy.

Kyle wrote:This is a quality rant though. I know how frustrating stuff like this can be. I used to have a similar problem with a different program... can't remember what the exact parameters were, but it drove me absolutely crazy.

And everytime it happens, I have to have it happen like 3 or 4 times before I realize what is going on. EVERYTIME! You would think by now it would click with me faster, but it doesn't.

If you hold shift down and move the arrows, it highlights one character at a time. This is really useful and time-saving when you're trying to go back and edit something. Sometimes on online sites, this is disabled (Gmail comes ot mind), or even worse, they map the combinations of shift + back / shift + forward to navigation of the website. I can't tell you how many times I've been doing things online for a class, tried to go back and delete something using that method and lost everything. You can't just click the back button and get back to a page with a text area with all of your contents because of the way the site is set up.