Just a little something real quick. When I’m typing a message, I want to be able to use my keyboard only and not having to grab the mouse at each auto-complete contextual menu (@mention, #category, #tag, emojis). It breaks my flow. I expect to be able to navigate in the pop-up menu with the arrows …

[image] pHneutre: Sadly this doesn’t work. It works exactly like you describe for me :person_shrugging: [chrome_UMfmXKGwsm] I use Chrome on Windows.

Right, here yes, not on the instance I administer. Discourse 3.4.7. Firefox on Ubuntu.

That will need some more debugging on your end I’m afraid. Does it work in safe-mode, to be absolutly sure it’s not caused by a TC/plugin Does it work on that instance in another browsers? Does it work on that instance in another operating system? Does it work if you update to latest? It clearly …

Thanks for checking. I just checked Meta on firefox on my end, latest version, and MacOS 26.1 – and it still works there too.

Welp, it was config-specific, I restarted Firefox in failsafe mode and it worked, then switched back to normal mode and… it still works? Ahah good old ghost bugs… Closing the topic.

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pHneutre December 5, 2025, 1:38pm 5

Thanks for the answer! It actually works with Brave, so it seems to be browser-related. I’m gonna check with my host and come back to you.

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