[duckduckgo.com] "home" and "end" keys ignored about duckduckgo-privacy-extension HOT 9 OPEN

Will that never be fixed? I've stopped using duckduckgo since... Is it that complicated to support a normal form to support normal US keys?!

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Thanks for the report. I've filed this issue internally and will get back to you with their response.

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This is still a problem.

Consider the use case that the user has entered a query and duckduckgo has no suggestions. This is the case more often than not for me, and results in the keys being ignored with no apparent reason. Even when there are suggestions available, rebinding home/end to functions other than those expected is a pretty huge violation of the principle of least astonishment. Don't screw with basic keyboard functions. The easiest and most correct fix for this issue is to completely remove the home/end binding to search suggestions.

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I tested on Chrome & Firefox Linux and can confirm the issue exists on both browsers.

Pressing Home or End does not move the cursor to the start or end of "test test" but instead selects the first or last search suggestion. This is default behavior even when a search suggestion wasn't selected beforehand.

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I just tested it and the keys are working.

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This is still an issue for me. The keys seem to activate the suggestions list instead of going to the start/end of the input.

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Thanks alexisfrjp for bringing attention to this. I'd like to add my concern that this is still an issue, and a very frustrating one. I'd also like to add some additional information: the behavior of home and end keys being intercepted only happens on the main page, i.e. https://duckduckgo.com/. If I search for something and I'm taken to a query result page like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search+terms&ia=web, I get full control of my keyboard back. Until this is fixed, I plan to search for something useless first, then do my actual search on the query result page as a workaround.

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For a work around, use

https://start.duckduckgo.com/

as described here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/128w291/homeend_keys_intercepted_on_search_webpage_once/

Personally, it difficult to comprehend why it was not fixed quickly.

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@sammacbeth can you assign this to me? I would like to work on it.

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