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I cannot type accent marks in firefox 4

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Firefox 4, Mac OX 10.6.7

I Firefox 3 I could type an accent mark using the US keyboard by pressing the option key. For example to type é, I would type option e followed by e.

Now in Firefox 4,the only way to type the accent marks is to use the French keyboard. Is there a fix for this or is this a bug in Firefox 4?

Firefox 4, Mac OX 10.6.7 I Firefox 3 I could type an accent mark using the US keyboard by pressing the option key. For example to type é, I would type option e followed by e. Now in Firefox 4,the only way to type the accent marks is to use the French keyboard. Is there a fix for this or is this a bug in Firefox 4?

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Such a composition of characters is usually handled by the OS and Firefox shouldn't have effect on it.

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Thank you for your reply. I have discovered that the problem is not Firefox but related to Web pages that I have been using. I occurs on the oli.web.cmu.edu French Course pages. I don't have this problem otherwise. So consider the problem solved.

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Let me amend my let reply. The problem of typing accents marks seems to occur only when Firefox is on a page which uses Adobe Flash. To summarize:

1. Cannot type accent marks using Firefox on certain pages which use Flash. 2. Problem does not occur using Safari.