LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards

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by jhabdas • 8 years ago

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On the Web both of these tools are fairly heavy on JavaScript. Both of them started writing text I entered backwards as I typed it, rendering then unusable. This has never happened with any other software I've used. Any ideas what could be happening?

abenedic• 8 years ago

Unicode stuff? I am not super familiar with their stacks, but perhaps some marker is wrong.

tiredwired• 8 years ago

Maybe browser setting or malware. Try a different browser.

zhte415• 8 years ago

Happened to me on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. Bizarre error. Using browser on Linux, not any phone apps,

jhabdas2• 8 years ago

So I'm not the only one. For me the solve was to delete my accounts on those services. Hasn't seen it happen to me since.

spicyj• 8 years ago

Browser extension? I know Millenials to Snake People caused this at one point.

jhabdas2• 8 years ago

Oh interesting. I believe I'd tried that extension for fun at one point, but switched to Yandex and was only using a handful of extensions at the time (M=>SP wasn't one of them).

ecesena• 8 years ago

Try in incognito, it will tell you if it’s them or a browser issue (plugin, cache, ...)

LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards

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