Everything I type goes into location bar

at the moment, literally everything I type goes into the location bar first, even if the cursor is visible somewhere else. For example if I try to type a facebook message, it goes into the location box first. It only started doing this recently

hello zicodani, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...
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