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Win 7 and Firefox 3.6 keyboard shows gibberish

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lincmark
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I upgraded to Win 7 and when I type anything, only in Firefox 3.6.12, I get random characters, not what I type. All other programs I have tried appear to be ok.

I upgraded to Win 7 and when I type anything, only in Firefox 3.6.12, I get random characters, not what I type. All other programs I have tried appear to be ok.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Check that you haven't switched the keyboard layout.
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.

See:

  • 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 to rotate the layout is a key combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that you can easily use in Firefox to activate a menu item.
  • Disable the key sequence to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctr+Shift) to avoid an unintentional switch and instead assign a specific key (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to switch to the keyboard layout.
  • XP: Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Text services and input languages > Details > Key Settings > Change Key Sequence
  • Vista: Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change keyboards > Advanced key settings > Change key sequence
lincmark
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Thanks, but the keyboard is fine with all other programs. I deactivated KeyScrambler add-on, and all is now okay with Firefox.

Modified by lincmark