Jupyter Shortcut not working

Question

I am working my code on Jupyter(Python). Normally, the shortcut to insert cell below is \'b\' and for above is \'a\', but when I do that search bar opens instead of insertion of

Answer 1

I figured this out! It has to do with a chrome extension blocking your jupyter shortcuts. You can test this by opening http://localhost:8888/notebooks in another browser.

In my case, I'd installed a chrome extension called Vimium, which was messing everything up.