Is that the number 5 on a keypad or the 5 as normally present on the top row of the knowledge base.

In case of the former you can try to enable numlock if you have this feature on your keyboard.

Not the numpad, it's the regular horizontal numbers above the alpha keys on a laptop keyboard with no numpad.

Does anyone know how I can log what Firefox is receiving and what it's doing under the hood so I can try and debug this?

bradley.weiers said

Does anyone know how I can log what Firefox is receiving and what it's doing under the hood so I can try and debug this?

Hmm, there are keyloggers used in spyware, but I don't know if there is a friendly keylogger that only shows you the data.

Reloading the page will terminate any running script in the page, so it might make more sense to use a system-level app.

It's unfortunate the form doesn't have one of those warnings about leaving the page and losing your work. If you disabled those warnings in about:config, you might want to re-enable them while sorting out this issue. See:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste unlo and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the dom.disable_beforeunload preference is bolded and has a value of false true, double-click it to restore the default value of true true

Hello Bradley,

I'm just curious :

In order to make the F5 key reload the page, you have to press the Fn key.

This means, that that key has another function as well, and I wonder what symbol that key has and what it does when you press the key without pressing Fn (?)

jscher2000 said

(3) If the dom.disable_beforeunload preference is bolded and has a value of false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

It does have a value of false but it is not bolded.

bradley.weiers said

jscher2000 said

(3) If the dom.disable_beforeunload preference is bolded and has a value of false, double-click it to restore the default value of true

It does have a value of false but it is not bolded.

I'm sorry, I wrote that backwards. You want it to be false. But I guess the site where the form reloaded doesn't have protection against that.

McCoy said

Hello Bradley, I'm just curious : In order to make the F5 key reload the page, you have to press the Fn key. This means, that that key has another function as well, and I wonder what symbol that key has and what it does when you press the key without pressing Fn (?)

The new Macbook Pros have a Touch Bar that has contextual buttons based on the application you're in. At that spot there is just a huge button to enter the search bar when the Fn button is not pressed. Just in case, I've disabled the Touch Bar to see if that fixes it.

bradley.weiers said

The new Macbook Pros have a Touch Bar that has contextual buttons based on the application you're in. At that spot there is just a huge button to enter the search bar when the Fn button is not pressed. Just in case, I've disabled the Touch Bar to see if that fixes it.

    Thank you for the detailed explanation - much appreciated !

I think I have a similar problem - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287114 but mine does it with a lowercase t. Possibly you can try with firefox version 64 and then 65 and see if it goes away - I don't know the answer myself but maybe its the same question!