The tab command gets stuck

[appetrosyan]

Describe the bug

The tab command triggered e.g. via TA*B does not released and causes the browser focus to continuously adjust.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a site with many focusable elements in a browser
2. stroke TA*B
3. repeat a few times
4. browser focus starts scrolling all over the focusable elements

Expected behavior

the stroke produces one

Screenshots

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Operating system

• OS: Arch Linux
• Plover Version Plover 5.0.0rc1

Hardware

The stenokeyboards polyglot.

[user202729]

I never encountered this issue but it's entirely possible that the browser (Firefox?) doesn't handle too fast keystrokes. A workaround may be to increase the delay between adjacent key presses to say 12ms.

reference #1408

[appetrosyan]

Will check

[appetrosyan]

Increasing the delay reduces the incidence, but does not resolve the problem. Moreover, the delay is completely impractical for usage of Plover, so this is not a fix, this is a poor workaround.

[panathea]

Does it occur on other browsers or programs, and which browser are you seeing the issue in?

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[appetrosyan]

I've tested Firefox, Zen, Chrome, De-Googled Chromium, Vivaldi on Linux.