Keydown event for Escape key not being registered
At some point, I've noticed that certain behaviours expected to occur when pressing the Escape key no longer did. Those behaviours mainly involved triggering some Javascript, including functionality in keyboard-related extensions, such as Tridactyl. Browser-level functionality on the other hand, such as pressing Shift-Escape to open `about:processes`, or pressing Escape to close Search Suggestions when the URL input bar, continue to work as before.
Upon investigation, I found it is specifically the javascript Keydown event that isn't being registered, while the subsequent Keyup event still is. I used https://w3c.github.io/uievents/tools/key-event-viewer.html to test this.
I also found that starting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode (Safe mode) doesn't resolve the issue. On the other hand, creating a new profile does.
I've looked at the modified settings in `about:config`; there's a lot, but nothing stands out as being related to keyboard input or javascript.
Can someone please help me find what is causing this?
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You can look at dom.keyboardevent prefs.
cor-el said
You can look at dom.keyboardevent prefs.
Unfortunately, they are all default and identical to the new test profile I created.