CTRL+T doesn't work when a twitch.tv tab is focused

Moofey

I've been having this weird bug or something where if I currently have a twitch.tv tab in the foreground, I can't open a new tab by pressing CTRL+T. The shortcut works when viewing any other tab and every other method of opening a new tab works. Otherwise I have to click to a different tab and then press CTRL+T to open a new tab.

Is there a setting that I may have enabled that prevents this or is this a bug?

OS: Windows 11 21H2
Vivaldi version: 5.2.2623.41 (Stable x64)

Pesala

@moofey Some sites grab keyboard shortcuts for their own use. Focusing the address bar (F8) first might make Ctrl+T work.

I use Ctrl+N for New Tab, and that works OK.

If you search the forum for twitch.tv you will find a number of issues, but I did not see this particular issue.

PureSpider

I have Ctrl+T defined as my shortcut to open a new tab.
However, when a text input is selected, Ctrl+T swaps the last two letters instead of opening a new tab.

Is there a way to override text input shortcuts, or disable them entirely, so that I can use Ctrl+T to open a new tab, no matter what the current focus is?

iAN CooG

@PureSpider said in How to disable shortcuts in text input?:

Ctrl+T swaps the last two letters instead of opening a new tab

I can't replicate this, are you sure this doesn't happen only on a specific site or it's one of your extensions causing this behaviour?

Pesala

What kind of extension are you using that swaps the last two letters input?

You can always edit the Keyboard shortcut for New Tabs from Ctrl+T to Ctrl+N.

PureSpider

You both are correct, and this sent me on the right track. It's only happening in twitch's chat input box and seems to be a listener added by the website, and only when logged in.

I did however not have this issue in chrome, maybe their global shortcuts overwrite page ones?

amm

Also seeing this issue, only on Twitch and only in Vivaldi. It will move whatever character is to the left of the cursor to the right, instead of making a new tab. If you click out of the chat field first, a new tab is created as expected.

skunksx

Same problem here when twitch chat is in focus. CTRL T doesn't work. Only in Vivaldi.

Saeverix

Can we please get some attention for this bug? I think it's a bug since it only happens in Vivaldi. In Firefox, Chrome, Brave and Edge it works fine.
To reproduce you need to be logged in to Twitch.

For me it's so annoying that it actually prevents me from switching to Vivaldi as my main browser.
And changing the shortcut to CTRL + N is not a fix, that's just a band aid.

iAN CooG

just change the shortcut to open a new tab to something else than Ctrl+T, why making it harder than it actually is?
Besides, it only happens if your focus is on the twitch chat box, press Tab then ctrl+T and it works.

Saeverix

@iAN-CooG That's all good, but like I said it's a workaround. Besides that, CTRL + T is programmed in my memory as the New Tab shortcut.

This is clearly a bug, and bugs should be fixed.

jamesnicolas

I'm running into the same issue of the last two characters being swapped if I press CTRL+T. I thought it could be an extension, but after some testing without any extensions I realised it only happens when you're logged in. So for people trying to reproduce, make sure you're logged in.

Edit: I should also note, I'm using vivaldi on ubuntu, so it's not just vivaldi for windows.

jamesnicolas

Posting again since I went past the edit deadline.

Now I wasn't able to reproduce the issue with slatejs's demo, but, I did find a line

transposeCharacter: "ctrl+t"

Screenshot from 2024-01-13 00-11-09.png

To find this, press ctrl+shift+i to open up the developer console, ctrl+shift+f to do a global search, and search for "ctrl+t". Click on the first result, and then you can click the { } icon to format it to make it readable.

If you scroll around, you'll find mentions of "slate", and you'll also find this transposeCharacter feature in both in twitch's and slate's code. So it seems twitch is configuring slate to capture ctrl+t, but it's still unclear why this is only happening in vivaldi and not chrome for example. But hopefully this further's the investigation for anyone wanting to create a minimally reproducible example.

Saeverix

Thanks for also confirming the issue @jamesnicolas. But since this topic is started back in 2022, and Vivaldi not even confirmed looking into this: I have just accepted that Vivaldi is not willing to fix this issue. I have switched to Brave as my main browser, which does not have the issue.

mib2berlin

@Saeverix
Hi, this is a user forum, a user had to report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker.
If it not happen in Chromium browser but in Vivaldi it is a Vivaldi bug, one cant really test this with Opera or Edge.
They fork the Chromium code and do massive changes to workaround such issues, Vivaldi doesn't do this.

holynoob

@mib2berlin said in CTRL+T doesn't work when a twitch.tv tab is focused:

@Saeverix
Hi, this is a user forum, a user had to report it to the Vivaldi bug tracker.
If it not happen in Chromium browser but in Vivaldi it is a Vivaldi bug, one cant really test this with Opera or Edge.
They fork the Chromium code and do massive changes to workaround such issues, Vivaldi doesn't do this.

This does indeed happen on vivaldi ONLY. I have submitted a proper bug report now. Will update thread if I'm updated

mib2berlin

@holynoob
Hm, I cant reproduce this in Vivaldi 6.6.3271.57, running a Twitch tab in the foreground and Ctrl-T still open a new tab.
Anyway, maybe other tester and developer can.
You can ask about the status of a report after some time:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27450/what-is-the-status-of-vb-already-reported-bug-issue/

Cheers, mib

holynoob

@mib2berlin
thanks for the link.
just to double check, did you focus the chat window? I don't know if you actually have access to the bug report i made (VB-105432)

This is how i've described it in the actual bug report to reproduce

Tested both on Windows 11 and Ubuntu 23.10

Be logged in (This bug occurs in anonymous window without extensions too, but you still have to be logged in!)

Focus the chat window in any streamers chat

Write any text in chatbox

Press ctrl + t, intending to open a new tab as is the default vivaldi behavior

(I personally don't see this as a big deal, but someone else in this thread felt stronger about it so I at least figured it should be reported properly and the vivaldi team can make the actual choice whether this is worth spending however much time on, I don't know anything about that)

mib2berlin

@holynoob
Ah OK, I don't have an account so my test is not relevant.
The report looks fine.

Cheers, mib

Saeverix

@mib2berlin I did create a Bug Report after your message, one 31 Januari 2024 to be exact.
I now read @holynoob also created a Bug Report.

But the main issue: After all these months I haven't received any status update. Several new versions are released, but none fixed the issue (which does not feel like a really complex issue).

I guess Vivaldi has 0 priority to fix this. For me it's not a problem anymore, I am back to Firefox.