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When I type, not all keystrokes are registered

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dlaurice
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This seems to be happening only with Firefox. When I type, such as in the address bar, multiple strokes do not register. This is particularly true of multiple letters (www, oo etc.), but happens in all situations including punctuation. For example, if I were to type http://www.google.com, I might get htp:/wwgolecom. I reinstalled with no success.

This seems to be happening only with Firefox. When I type, such as in the address bar, multiple strokes do not register. This is particularly true of multiple letters (www, oo etc.), but happens in all situations including punctuation. For example, if I were to type http://www.google.com, I might get htp:/wwgolecom. I reinstalled with no success.

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cor-el
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You may have switched the keyboard layout.

Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application and you may have changed the keyboard layout by accident via a keyboard shortcut.

See:

It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.

  • 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 keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
  • 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)
  • Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change keyboards > Advanced key settings > Change key sequence