Computer enters abnormal state after heavy use of Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab

I have a computer mouse that has extra buttons. I attached the shortcuts Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab to these mouse buttons. I have also done this with gestures on my laptop's touchpad. I use these combinations a lot and they are very useful. Every now and then when I use these buttons/gestures a lot, at some point my computer enters an abnormal state characterized by two problems: Changing tabs with the above shortcuts ceases to work , on any browser or IDE (e.g. Visual Studio Code). Instead it behaves as if singular Tab command was detected. Important to note is that Ctrl , Shift and T

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