openstenoproject
The tab command gets stuck
Describe the bug
The tab command triggered e.g. via TA*B does not released and causes the browser focus to continuously adjust.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to a site with many focusable elements in a browser
- stroke TA*B
- repeat a few times
- browser focus starts scrolling all over the focusable elements
Expected behavior
the stroke produces one
Screenshots
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Operating system
- OS: Arch Linux
- Plover Version Plover 5.0.0rc1
Hardware
The stenokeyboards polyglot.
I never encountered this issue but it's entirely possible that the browser (Firefox?) doesn't handle too fast keystrokes. A workaround may be to increase the delay between adjacent key presses to say 12ms.
reference https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/issues/1408
Increasing the delay reduces the incidence, but does not resolve the problem. Moreover, the delay is completely impractical for usage of Plover, so this is not a fix, this is a poor workaround.
Does it occur on other browsers or programs, and which browser are you seeing the issue in?
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 9:47 AM Aleksandr Petrosyan @.***> wrote:
appetrosyan left a comment (openstenoproject/plover#1770) https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/issues/1770#issuecomment-3343429364
Increasing the delay reduces the incidence, but does not resolve the problem. Moreover, the delay is completely impractical for usage of Plover, so this is not a fix, this is a poor workaround.
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I've tested Firefox, Zen, Chrome, De-Googled Chromium, Vivaldi on Linux.