Unity panel search bar opens mutiple browser tabs.

[em3raldxiii]

I am a long-time Ubuntu user, and I have come across a bizarre bug that I cannot understand. I am not even precisely sure where to begin with troubleshooting, so anything is likely to help.

When I click on the little swirly Ubuntu icon at the top of the Unity panel, as soon as I begin typing in the search bar my default browser opens a new tab. As I type, additional tabs are opened continually. It seems that the search action is somehow being tied to my browser (in this case, I have been using Chrome for awhile). It's not terribly problematic, but it is silly and I would like to stop it from happening.

I have also tried searching for similar issues, but it seems that my searching keywords are either not effective at finding similar issues, OR I am the only one with this issue.

I will endeavor to post here if/when I have a solution. But as I said, any input is welcome.

Thanks!!

Update: Thanks to the clues I was given below, I have come a step or two closer to finding the solution. This has irritated me for quite some time, so I ended up coming back here to see if anyone had offered any solutions. I opened my Passwords and Keys application and just deleted them all. I had many multiple entries for several of the various online accounds that I have, so it appears that something was broken with my keys. On the down-side, I did not determine which one was the actual culprit, but I'm okay with that. If I end up with any further information, I will come back here to update it.

[cetex]

I am a long-time Ubuntu user, and I have come across a bizarre bug that I cannot understand. I am not even precisely sure where to begin with troubleshooting, so anything is likely to help.

When I click on the little swirly Ubuntu icon at the top of the Unity panel, as soon as I begin typing in the search bar my default browser opens a new tab. As I type, additional tabs are opened continually. It seems that the search action is somehow being tied to my browser (in this case, I have been using Chrome for awhile). It's not terribly problematic, but it is silly and I would like to stop it from happening.

I have also tried searching for similar issues, but it seems that my searching keywords are either not effective at finding similar issues, OR I am the only one with this issue.

I will endeavor to post here if/when I have a solution. But as I said, any input is welcome.

Thanks!

You're not the only one with the problem. I'm having the same issue myself.
Have absolutely no idea where to begin searching though..

[atbrew]

I'm in the same boat too, any updates would be very much appreciated.

[liquant]

Similar issue.
I get the same when I open unity via the sidebar and begin typing.
The issue that is annoying me is that my <SUPER> key opens unity and enters the search bar, which causes the same effect.

Chrome opens "about:blank", ~70% of the time, whenever I press <SUPER> to open Unity.
I've tried looking at my chrome settings to no avail. I cannot find where the shortcut is set.

It seemed to happen after I temporarily disabled my <ALT> key, to do some work with GIMP, by installing the Compiz config settings manager.
None of the settings in there seem to affect my situation though.

=/

I can work with it, but it's highly annoying.

Does anyone have any tips for searching which key presses are getting routed to which section of the OS?

[liquant]

Interesting.

I just removed Gwibber, which seems to have fixed my problem. My thinking is that there's something broken with it- causing it to open new tabs when it tries to search FB/G+ for content.

I don't know why. It just seems to have stopped.

Maybe it'll work for you too.

[yogesh_khatri]

I was too having the same problem. It was some problem with online accounts.
Removed all my online accounts i had added(as i was not using them anyways) and it solved my problem.

[em3raldxiii]

Just a heads up to everyone: I have updated my original post. Deleting all of the keys in my Passwords and Keys app was effective at stopping the problem. Now to see if I can safely re-add a few!