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Everytime I type a character, Firefox displays it double (Ex. I press "h"; get "hh")

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Not much to it. I keep getting double characters every time I type letters. For instance, I want to get to Google. I type, "www.google.com". What I get is "wwwwww.ggooooggllee.ccoomm". The only work around I have found is to literally delete the extra character as I am typing; a laborious process tp say the least. And you can forget about inputting passwords. So.... How do I fix it?

Not much to it. I keep getting double characters every time I type letters. For instance, I want to get to Google. I type, "www.google.com". What I get is "wwwwww.ggooooggllee.ccoomm". The only work around I have found is to literally delete the extra character as I am typing; a laborious process tp say the least. And you can forget about inputting passwords. So.... How do I fix it?

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

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Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support to see if that has effect in case security software is causing problems.