Periodically Losing Focus on Text Entry Box

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Starting yesterday or the day before, while I'm typing a post the text input box periodically loses focus and I have to manually click to get the cursor back in the box and continue typing. I'm not sure, but I think it happens when one of the site banners refreshes. It's quite annoying.

I'm not sure whether it's just me or others are having the same issue. I'm running Chrome on Win11 and I don't have any special addons.
 
Starting yesterday or the day before, while I'm typing a post the text input box periodically loses focus and I have to manually click to get the cursor back in the box and continue typing. I'm not sure, but I think it happens when one of the site banners refreshes. It's quite annoying.

I'm not sure whether it's just me or others are having the same issue. I'm running Chrome on Win11 and I don't have any special addons.
It sounds frustrating! The issue you’re experiencing with the text input box losing focus could be due to the site’s banners refreshing. If it's not just you, it might be a broader problem. Have you tried clearing your cache or checking for updates in Chrome? Sometimes those simple fixes can help resolve glitches like this.
 
Yes, I'm pretty sure that it happens when the banners refresh. If it's not happening to anyone else, then it's probably specific to my system, but I've already tried restarting the computer, clearing the cache, etc.
I have the same issue, especially when using Chrome on my Win11 work laptop.
 
We have not changed anything there, so I'm a bit puzzled :dunno:.
This would indicate that the focus of the browser windows changes to the banner... which I guess kinda makes sense, but I don't know if that is an issue with the forum software or of the browser :think:.
 
The other reason that it may be appearing less frequently for @The_J and Noble Zarkon is that the the "Supporter" badge also removes ads, and if it's a banner ad that's stealing the focus, then it would not show up when someone who is a Supporter is logged in. And since you can't type a reply when not logged in, that effectively means someone with the "Supporter" badge has no way of detecting it if it's ad related.

It may help to screenshot the ad that is displaying when it occurs and post it here, it's possible there's one rogue ad that's hogging the focus. Or if it is more than one, that's also good to know. The more we document when it occurs, the more the cause can be triangulated.
 
I have noticed it happening as well today
 
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that I'm using the Civ V dark theme. I don't know if that makes a difference.
I'm using the Civ VI theme, so I don't think that it's linked to theme.
 
This. It happened with ads at the bottom for both Bombas and Tickets at Work, but it happens with many ads.
 
I have just used my test account (which sees ads) to open this thread, and mash the keyboard through a few banner reloads in Chromium and in Edge (which is based on Chromium), but I cannot replicate the problem :/.
I checked the Xenforo forums, and there is no report either. Which doesn't have to mean anything, could as well be our specific combination of forum software and advertising platform :/.

How often would you say this happens on average?
Would need to know how long I would need to approximately test.
 
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