Ctrl-C closes tab instead of copying text
I'm not sure precisely when this started but it was recently. Control-C no longer copies text. Instead it closes the active tab. I don't know how to make it stop doing this.
Related, now when I enter an entry field on a page (like this one) and begin to type, the letter "w" is often the first letter displayed no matter what key I hit on the keyboard. This can be reliably reproduced by swapping between windows (from something else to FF) using either Ctrl-Tab or using the mouse in the taskbar; upon returning to the entry field in FF the first character that displays is "w" regardless of what key I hit. These problems seem to go together because they started at the same time.
I recently reinstalled Windows to clean it up (finished doing it TONIGHT) and these things persist through the reinstallation.
I am running FF 22.0 on Windows XP Home SP3. My comp is a Velocity Micro Vision 64 AMD 4400 dual. The comp is pretty old but trusty and this is not an issue in any other program.
Has anyone else run into this, or is this just me?
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window or otherwise make changes.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Creating a profile":
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
Thank you. I did try all of these things and they didn't help. I also reinstalled my keyboard and that didn't help either.
I have concluded that these problems are related, in that when I hit "control" FF is actually receiving "w" and therefore when I hit c it triggers the Close Tab shortcut.
Do you have multiple keyboard layouts installed?
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 this layout per application.
I have only one layout and it matches my keyboard. Also: the letter "w" appears when I hit ANY key. Spacebar. Shift key. Any letter. Any key at all generates the letter w. Every time I type a reply right here, I hit shift to capitalize my first letter and it types "w" instead and I have to backspace to get rid of it (backspace key also produces w if it is the first thing I hit).
It is only the first letter I type when I open a new tab or come back to FF from another window. This is in all fields - the URL bar, the search field, and any field within a webpage.
Okay, it has become clear that this has, somehow, to do with the way FF is interacting with my kb.
I borrowed a kb from another computer and swapped them. Problem disappeared. I swapped them again, and the problem came back. I plugged BOTH into the comp (so I have two kbs connected) and the problem is gone, even though I am actually typing on the old kb.
So I have a workaround, and I've been wanting a wireless kb anyway so I am going to buy a new one and that will probably resolve it forever. I don't know what changed on my configuration to make FF hate my kb, because I'm not entirely certain when this began. But that is the issue: my kb and FF do not get along anymore.