Weird problem with virtual keyboard on Twitter

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I have a couple of weird problems that both occur at the beginning of composing a tweet on Twitter.


I am using the virtual (touch) keyboard on a Surface Pro 4 in tablet mode. When I begin composing the tweet I tap the shift key to capitalize the first letter. After tapping the first letter, the shift key remains engaged. Tapping a second letter will enter it as a capital and disengage the shift key. (Alternatively, tapping the shift key again will disengage it.) After that, entering text works just fine.


Playing around with this a bit more, I find that I can reproduce the problem using the virtual keyboard on my desktop system. It only happens with the five-row keyboard (the one with number keys). The four-row keyboard does not exhibit the problem and capitalizes the first letter by default without any need to touch the shift key. (That's how I would like it to work.)


The second problem is that if I enter a few characters of the first word, then choose an autocomplete suggestion, everything I have typed disappears and no further typing is visible. (At that point, I discard the tweet and try again.) Beyond the first word, choosing suggestions works just fine. I was not able to reproduce this problem on the desktop system.


Both of these problems only occur with the first word of the tweet and this behavior is consistent. These problems first appeared several months ago, and I have been hoping they would just as suddenly disappear. The only time I have ever seen either of these problems is when entering the first word of a tweet.


I am using the Chromium version of Edge which is up to date. I think that when the problems first appeared I was still using the classic version of Edge but I am not certain about that. I was on Windows 10 version 1904 when the problems first appeared but have since updated to 2004. The problems are also reproduceable with the Chrome browser.

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