I can't confirm this on a similar system. Have you tried backing up and removing your gedit preferences and retrying this?
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Key-binding F9 (Show Sidepane) freezes gedit until i click on it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478924
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