# Keyboard shortcuts are hard to use in Firefox

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** keyboard-shortcuts
**Created:** [9 באפריל,‏ 2020,‏ 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396 "2020-04-09T09:18:56Z")
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### Author: ![evantill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/evantill/32/116219_2.png) [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [9 באפריל,‏ 2020,‏ 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396/1 "2020-04-09T09:18:57Z")

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Sometimes, when I try to use keyboard shortcuts Firefox is interferring (like if I was searching some text in the page).

Is this a bug ?

- Fifrefox 74.0.1
- MacOS 10.14.6

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### Author: ![evantill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/evantill/32/116219_2.png) [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [9 באפריל,‏ 2020,‏ 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396/2 "2020-04-09T09:20:17Z")

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Is this related to my problem ?

> [@Keyboard shortcuts on Windows Firefox](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-on-windows-firefox/145702/2):
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> Firefox has a “Search for text when you start typing” setting, that would interfere with most shortcuts. Is this the case?

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### Author: ![evantill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/evantill/32/116219_2.png) [@evantill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/evantill)
#### Post date: [9 באפריל,‏ 2020,‏ 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396/3 "2020-04-09T09:25:34Z")

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Here how to disable it. It seems to solve my problem.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4602277/how-do-i-disable-firefoxs-search-for-text-when-i-start-typing-on-pages-with-k/11336931#11336931>

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [9 במאי,‏ 2020,‏ 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-are-hard-to-use-in-firefox/147396/4 "2020-05-09T09:25:43Z")

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