# About markdown shortcut

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-markdown-shortcut/122425>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-markdown-shortcut/122425 "2019-07-09T10:16:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-markdown-shortcut/122425/6 "2019-07-11T12:23:12Z")

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I doubt it’s a virus but it definitely works in Chrome on Windows. It’s quite odd that it would happen in two different browsers though, since my first guess would be an extension.

Thanks for the report though, we’ll keep an eye out and see if others report it. As a workaround you can click the buttons for now.

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