fragility

Over the past few days I’ve been experiencing a really annoying bug on Google Reader. I’m not sure if it’s actually related to Firefox or Google Reader, but I’ve tried in Opera and it’s not happening, at least not on the same way.

Suppose I’m reading my feeds and I want to open some item. I can press the ‘v’ hotkey and everything is fine. But sometimes, when I have the mouse connected to the laptop I reach for the third button and click on the item title. I usually don’t go to that new window right away (I have this habit of opening lots of stuff and just wait for it to load and read it only after I finish all the feed items). The thing is, after I middle click the title, when I press ‘j’ again to go to the next feed item, Firefox’s “quick find” feature kicks in, so I’m just taken to the next ‘j’ character, which is extremely annoying. If I want the feed items section to regain focus, I have to left click on some item again.

I tried this on Opera, and it doesn’t happen, but after I middle click a title I have to move the mouse out of the link area, otherwise ‘j’ won’t do anything.

While trying this on other browsers I also found out that Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are not supported on Konqueror.

The weird thing is that I believe this only started happening after the last time Google Reader told me there was an update and that I should refresh. So, is this happening to someone else ?

Update
Looks like this was already noticed on the discussion group.

Update 2
The Reader team has replied to that thread from before saying they are working on a fix. Way to go guys !

Update 3
It’s fixed !