P: Arrow keys broken in Compare

When I view 2 photos side by side to compare in XY mode, I cant advance to the next photo with my right arrow key like I always used to do and I cant remove the side panels to only display the 2 photos with the TAB key.

 

I was also talking about the keyboard keys, which are essential for a fluent selection process.

Yes, the Arrow Keys on the Keyboard no longer work for some number of people for an unclear reason.  It is very handy to be able to use Compare with the keyboard Arrow Keys!

To be clear, those of you monitoring this thread, are you referring to the arrow keys in Lr or on the keyboard?  Those in Lr work fine and respect the Reference Image, but on my keyboard, they don't work at all, which would be much handier.

Reminds me of one of the old Murphy's Laws of COBOL computer programming: "Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English." However, here I believe that the programmers do not speak or understand English since they are likely offshore.

What's with the introduction of bugs in areas unrelated to new features for LR? Are the devs re-writing it? I'm very tired of paying to be a perpetual beta tester.

Lightroom comparison view ("XY") is always loosing the reference picture.
I would like to set a fix picture and scroll through alternatives to quickly rate and compare them.
- arrow keys are not working
- it's constantly loosing the reference. It should be possible to really lock the reference I tried several times with different approaches to use this function. It is only useful for comparing a few hand picked pictures but not with a large selection.

p.s. Please dear developers, have a deeper look at a professional software like CaptureOne and you cry next time you open lightroom.

I too am having this problem.  If I delete the Preference file located
C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Preferences
It works one time and then after it re-creates the file, it does not work.