What other settings could prevent the “Go to Label” feature working in Google Mail?

Question

The "Go to Label" Lab feature should work as follows:

• Press g then l (goto label)
• Hovering input box opens
• Start typing a label's name or a folder name (Inbox, Trash, etc.)
  • Suggestions appear as I type to a dropdown list
• Select a label from the list / type the whole label
• Submit
• Page in:<name> (or label:<name>) opens

HOWEVER When I trigger the keyboard shortcut, hovering input box opens with l already put*. Suggestions won't appear. Nothing happens when I press enter.

2011-06-30 Pressing g then l won't even show the input box anymore.

The feature is broken. I have tried Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera on OS X.

I have the following other Labs features enabled**:

• Extra Emoji
• Search from autocompletion
• Undo send
• Add images
• Unread messages icon
• Send & Archive
• Mark as read button
• Title improvements
• Fetch POP-accounts
• Recently used Emoji
• Signature tweaks
• Go to label (duh)
• Message peek

Are any/some/a combination of these known to be in conflict with the "Go to label"? With my current Labs settings there is quite a lot of possible combinations, so trial & error might not be worth the hassle as I still can use the search box and click on the labels on the list on the left.

Also @Al Everett confirmed the Go to Label works for him as advertised, so I believe some other Lab feature is preventing it from working correctly. (I might investigate this, unless someone knows the answer straight away.)

For what it's worth, I actually have Google Apps mail — but a help article suggests the versions don't differ that much.

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*) The l isn't input in Firefox, otherwise it (dys)functions the same
**) These are translations from their Finnish namesakes so it may not be 1:1 correct.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, but the solution for me was to disable the "Preview Pane" Gmail lab.

Answer 2

It seems the problem is in the language versions:

• Tried vanilla GMail account (w/ keyboard shortcuts turned on) with all the same Labs enabled → not working
• Disabled all other Labs but "go to label" → not working
• Switched language to "English (US)" → works

I tested some other languages as well. Both English US & UK seem to be the only ones that have working Go to label feature. (I was going through the language list alphabetically and when all Spanish, German and French failed, I stopped.)

Changing the language to English in my primary Google Apps Mail account "solved" the problem there too.

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UPDATE Using the Gmail's new look also seems to fix the issue. (Well at least for Finnish, so probably for other languages as well.)