The Editor is Broken!

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A regression in Chrome 112 causes a tab character pasted into Slate editors to duplicate text, leak memory and crash pages; it reproduces in Brave and Edge and was reported after Campfire/Discord users saw it. Root cause narrows to a beforeinput handler using a letter-matching regex with native=true; flipping it to native=false is a one-line workaround that avoids the crash while awaiting Chrome to revert the faulty commit and ship a real fix in 113/114.

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1. 0:00Introduction to the talk
2. 1:23Why rich text editing is hard
3. 3:10Discovering the Chrome bug
4. 5:40Debugging without panic
5. 9:07First failed attempts at fixes
6. 11:54Finding the root cause
7. 13:39One-line workaround solution
8. 15:05Browser team confirms and fixes
9. 16:52Fix lands in Chrome 113
10. 17:14Speaker introduction and background
11. 18:18Summary and advice for bug fixing

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