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When typing, many keyboard, and some mouse, functions aren't working

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dulcinea
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This just started happening March 31st. I'm suddenly finding that a lot of typing shortcuts that used to work - hitting the home key to go to the beginning of a sentence, for instance, or being able to hit Enter whilst typing and go to a new line within the window instead of posting instantly, aren't working any long. Neither are the Page Down/Page Up keys, nor scrolling with my mouse pad. I just recently starting using Firefox 4,, but haven't encountered this problem before today.


Anyone have any ideas? Because this is really annoying.

This just started happening March 31st. I'm suddenly finding that a lot of typing shortcuts that used to work - hitting the home key to go to the beginning of a sentence, for instance, or being able to hit Enter whilst typing and go to a new line within the window instead of posting instantly, aren't working any long. Neither are the Page Down/Page Up keys, nor scrolling with my mouse pad. I just recently starting using Firefox 4,, but haven't encountered this problem before today. Anyone have any ideas? Because this is really annoying.

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dulcinea
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Never mind; it's stopped. I think the problem stemmed from having a PDF doc open; as soon as I closed that, everything was fine again.