Keyboard not working in Mozilla
My laptop’s keyboard is not working in Mozilla at all but works anywhere else. I am currently writing this in Word and cut and pasting it into the feedback box. I really need to fix this because it’s really making things difficult because I really don’t want to use another browser. I’ve already tried restarting with all my plugins disabled but that hasn’t helped and I have the newest version of Mozilla. I have not downloaded anything recently and have no idea why this started. The last thing I typed was into youtube which worked but as soon as I typed something else my keyboard wouldn’t work.
Please help!
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I have this problem since I am on Windows 8/Bootcamp/iMac 27'.
I noticed that it is because the Windows key (command key on mac keyboard) is active, by pressing this key, the keyboard works again...
I assume I must hit the Windows key by mistake... Strange because I do not have this issue on other systems.
I have a similar issue with Word 2013, suddenly keys B, C and W stop working, again it is the Windows key.
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- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
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Did you try to reboot the computer?
It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258824 - How to change your keyboard layout
Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application and you may have changed the keyboard layout by accident via a keyboard shortcut.
- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/The-Language-bar-overview The Language bar (overview)
- Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar
- You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar
- Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar
- You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application
- The default key combination to rotate the layout is the Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift combination that Firefox uses for some menu items
- To avoid an unintentional switch, assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift)
Mine wasn't working for some reason either. I opened On Screen Keyboard to type and while it was open tried typing again and it worked. Sudden and strange. Hope this might help anyone else.
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I have this problem since I am on Windows 8/Bootcamp/iMac 27'.
I noticed that it is because the Windows key (command key on mac keyboard) is active, by pressing this key, the keyboard works again...
I assume I must hit the Windows key by mistake... Strange because I do not have this issue on other systems.
I have a similar issue with Word 2013, suddenly keys B, C and W stop working, again it is the Windows key.