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When i press CTRL my firefox start and it makes me problem cos i cant use ctrl+c or ctrl + v

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When i press CTRL my firefox starts and i cant use keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste cos everytime when i press ctrl Firefox go to homepage. When i start my computer and im on desktop and only system prorgram works and if i press CTRL firefox will start. If im on some webpage then if i press ctrl firefox go to homepage so i cant copy and paste. Copy and Paste only work if i do it with mouse

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Every time Firefox opened

== Few days beforee

When i press CTRL my firefox starts and i cant use keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste cos everytime when i press ctrl Firefox go to homepage. When i start my computer and im on desktop and only system prorgram works and if i press CTRL firefox will start. If im on some webpage then if i press ctrl firefox go to homepage so i cant copy and paste. Copy and Paste only work if i do it with mouse == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Few days beforee

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You most likely have one of the CTRL+letter shortcuts set to open Firefox. To fix this:

  1. Right click on the Firefox icon where the shortcut is set. (Most likely on the Desktop or in the Start Menu)
  2. Choose Properties
  3. Click in the shortcut key blank and press backspace. This will erase the shortcut
  4. Click OK
  5. Repeat these steps for any more shortcuts that you accidentally set.
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In my firefox properetis window...shortcut key is NONE and even if i set some other shotrcut for firefox...ctrl is still used for it. I checked my comp with Spybot and it find some stuff on my comp and it was removed. Im scaning now with Avira.

Is there somewhere is Winxp system place that can be used for this kind of shortcuts??? I know that i didnt touch anything.

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im having exactly the same problem with 3.5.9 shortcut is also none

when i press ctrl firefox starts i cant even bookmark or anything cause when firefox is opened if you press ctrl it will refresh the page

what the hell ?

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The same problem here. It is only with the left control. Please help.

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SAME PROBLEM WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING