sendKeys(protractor.Key.TAB) and (protractor.Key.RETURN) is thorwing an error - protractor

Question

I am using keyboard keys to fill forms and using the Tab and Enter keys it throwing me an error while running in the script.
Failed: sendKeysToActiveElement
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'
System info: host: 'BBUNTY', ip: '192.168.56.1', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_212-release'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
UnsupportedOperationError: sendKeysToActiveElement
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'
System info: host: 'BBUNTY', ip: '192.168.56.1', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_212-release'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
Below is the code I have used in the script
browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.TAB).perform();
page.getUsercountrycodeinput().click().then( function(){
page.getUsercountrycodeinput().element(by.className('ng-input'))
.element(by.cssContainingText('ng-dropdown-panel ng-select-top', '+91'));
browser.actions().sendKeys(protractor.Key.RETURN).perform();
});
it is a dropdown input field I am searching for text and then selecting the value '+91' form the dropdown field.
Chrome Version is 90.0.4430.212
webdriver version is chromedriver_90.0.4430.212.

Answer 1

Try disabling w3c in your config file under capabilities.
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome',
'chromeOptions': {
w3c: false
}
}
More details here - https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5285