Google Reader is CASE SENSITIVE

I have been using Google Reader for a while now (around 6 months) and i really enjoy all its cool features. Although i haven't used much of other RSS readers, i think so far this is the best in the market. With there latest interface introduced about a month ago, it became a lot cooler.

One thing i like most about this reader is the 'shortcut key' feature inbuilt in it. Given the amount of RSS feeds i read, it would come as no surprise that i could find the keys 'j' (selects the next item in the list), 'k' (selects the previous item in the list) and 'v' (opens the original source for this article in a new window) even in pitch black darkness.

Initially i had a lot of trouble using this feature. It used to work sometimes and other times it just wouldn't (how hard ever i try to hit my keyboard). I thought it must be some kind of bug that 'Google' is trying to rectify.

One day as usual when i was in the middle of reading feeds all of a sudden 'Google reader' stopped responding to my keyboard strokes. I had to pick up my mouse for the rest of the session. After a while i fired up 'notepad' to make a quick note when i found that output was UPPER CASE. i noticed that i accidentally toggled 'CAPS LOCK'. It then flashed to me that it might not be because of a bug that 'Google reader' stopped responding to shortcut keys. I opened 'Google Reader' again and this time with CAPS off, i was able to use my favorite keys 'jvk' and when i turned CAPS on i could see that the old bug (which i learned isn't) surfaced and 'Google reader' failed to recognize keyboard keys. when i changed the CAPS state to off again everything was back to normal.

From the above observations i inferred that 'Google Reader' is CASE SENSITIVE. so next time when you find 'Google Reader' failing to respond to your shortcut keys check the status of CAPS before proceeding to reload 'Google Reader' or close 'Firefox' and restart it.

Hope i have saved many Firefox restarts and mouse clicks on refresh buttons with this information.

PS: For a list of other shortcut keys of 'Google Reader' visit :list of Google Reader Shortcut keys

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