I’ve got Mozilla Firefox 1.0 with the Adblock extension. Every time I hold down the shift key and double-click on something on a web page, which happens quite often while composing a GMail letter for example, it disappears. For example, tables, field entries, etc–basically anything inside an element disappears. This causes me to lose whatever I’m typing in a textarea.
I searched Bugzilla and looked in the options for both Firefox and AdBlock and couldn’t find any documentation on this problem. Is this designed? If so, is there a way to turn off this shortcut or bring it back into view? Did I just uncover a huge bug that no one’s ever found? Am I going nuts?
BTW, this can be replicated on 3 computers. I’ve been noticing this problem since the first 1.0 PR at least.
Yep, I uninstalled all my extensions and reinstalled them one by one until I logically deduced that it was Adblock doing it. I’ve got the same version as you. To see what I mean, try holding down Shift and then double click on something that isn’t hyperlinked–the red + yellow subtitle below the yellow + blue “The Straight Dope” is a good one. Does it disappear?
Well, I posted on the Adblock official forum–where I should’ve posted in the first place–and apparently it is “QuickBlock”. They didn’t say how to turn it off though. Hopefully I’ll hear a response from them. Or maybe I should give up my habit of holding down the shift key while I highlight text.
Got it–it can be disabled by hitting ctrl+shift+K until there’s no line under the Adblock thingee in the status bar. I don’t know why they didn’t put it in the Options menu.
