Currently using Google Chrome on W10 on Toshiba laptop.
Until recently, opening a new topic stacked alongside the other open topics (ie an additional tab), however something happened so that each new topic or opening an existing topic created a separate window.
In addition, when I typed numerals the characters produced were not numerals or alpha but special characters.
I rectified the situation by a hard-shutdown (ie power off/power on) but what caused the anomaly? and how do I avoid it?
Keyboard aberration.
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Re: Keyboard aberration.
I've seen something similar, on Chrome/W10/Lenovo.
I reckoned that it happened because I had slight movement of the cursor at the instant of clicking. Never proved my theory by trying to repeat the event experimentally, but I thought that was prolly the cause.
I reckoned that it happened because I had slight movement of the cursor at the instant of clicking. Never proved my theory by trying to repeat the event experimentally, but I thought that was prolly the cause.
Re: Keyboard aberration.
I've had occasions where the system has missed a key release, so it thinks that one of the special function keys is still pressed. The solution is to go tap all the CTRL, ALT and shift keys, and whichever one it thought was stuck will unstick.