Comments on: Screwy Vista + Firefox Keyboard Character Problem

By: ericthered

ericthered — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:50:17 +0000

I was having the same problem myself. After doing a bit of research I realized that after leaving the application open for awhile, windows decided to change my keyboard layout to French Canadian. Thats when the characters started messing up.

I was able to fix this by going to Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Change keyboards or other input methods. From the resulting dialog I clicked “Change keyboards”. From there I noticed that there were 3 different layouts listed… “Canadian French”, “Canadian Multilingual Standard”, and “US”. I simply removed the two Canadian layouts. This seems to have resolved my issue.

Hope it helps!

By: The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » Still More Screwy Keyboard Problems

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:41:17 +0000

[...] completely baffled. I thought that the screwy keyboard character issue was restricted just to Firefox, but this morning I saw the same problem with Outlook 2007 when I tried to type a question mark [...]

By: OSUKid7

OSUKid7 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:30:21 +0000

Yeah, make sure you have the latest release, and try running Firefox safe mode (for the program, not Windows). That will show you if Firefox is causing the problem, or if it’s an extension. If it’s an extension, start disabling things until you find the culpret.

If you’re still in need of help, drop by the #firefox channel on irc.mozilla.org. It’s an active channel and they should be able to point you in the right direction.

By: hishamh

hishamh — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:42:09 +0000

I used to see the same problem a lot, but not since I upgraded to ver2.