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keyboard problems ONLY on Mozilla Firefox

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emmac6
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firefox 3.6.12. desktop. vista: now when I click on some keys, I get the wrong characters, for instance a for q. it is NOT a windows issue, my Regional and language settings are correctly set to American English, and my keyboard works perfectly well on IE and Google Chrome. the problem is ONLY with Mozilla Firefox. how can I get back to correct settings? very bothersome

firefox 3.6.12. desktop. vista: now when I click on some keys, I get the wrong characters, for instance a for q. it is NOT a windows issue, my Regional and language settings are correctly set to American English, and my keyboard works perfectly well on IE and Google Chrome. the problem is ONLY with Mozilla Firefox. how can I get back to correct settings? very bothersome

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cor-el
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If you have more than one layout installed the it can still be a Windows issue because Windows remembers the layout per program and MS has chosen a simple way like Ctrl or Alt + (Left or Right) Shift to cycle the installed layouts. Firefox has a lot of menu items with such a key sequence that easily trigger such a layout switch. It is best to disable that cycle sequence and use a specific shortcut if you want to switch the keyboard layout.

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.

See:

verm71
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OK, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first because I've never seen any other app behave like this before, but this worked! I am running Firefox 8, not that it makes a difference.

One other symptom I had was when going into the keyboard language control panel in Windows 7, it took a very long time for that dialog box to appear (over a minute), to a point where I thought I had a virus preventing me from fixing this. But once the system unclogged itself, about 10 or so windows appeared for the keyboard language!

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