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when i type in the bar to search anything the curser skips left and types the word backwards? I've tried to reinstall Mozilla and it still does the problem? Help?

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I had Firefox 3.6 installed on my Dell with XP. All of the sudden when I try to search something. I will type in the search bar and as I'm typing my curser is skipping left as I'm typing and the word is spelled backwards. The letter is not backwards but the word is. I've uninstalled Mozilla and reinstalled and it still works. I can search on Internet Explorer without any problems. I do not know computers well so speak in simple terms please.  :-) Can anyone help? DC

I had Firefox 3.6 installed on my Dell with XP. All of the sudden when I try to search something. I will type in the search bar and as I'm typing my curser is skipping left as I'm typing and the word is spelled backwards. The letter is not backwards but the word is. I've uninstalled Mozilla and reinstalled and it still works. I can search on Internet Explorer without any problems. I do not know computers well so speak in simple terms please. :-) Can anyone help? DC

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I have not seen reports of this issue for a couple of years, but using an old version of Java has been known to cause this. Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed, available from http://java.com/