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When I'm typing a post I cant use the apostrophe, when I press it a quick find bar comes up just above the bottom bar on my Firefox and I cant type any more until it goes away.
I must have enabled it but I don't know how.:thinking:

And before you ask I'm using the spell checker to fill them in.:D
 
I have had that a few times Susane, never figured out what the hell caused it. I tend to just reboot and it works fine :(
 
Now Im worried, it started yesterday, its been re booted since then :(
Cant be bothered to s check this.
 
Ive found out its a FF glitch but it looks complicated to fix, Ill work it out eventually...I think.:shrug:
 
hmm maybe not, have just read the next page of that thread and it doesnt seem an overall fix :( It does seem to stop it for a while though.
 
I know, Ive been reading about it, the options fix doesnt work, the button is unchecked and always has been.
I cant understand why its started doing it, its been fine since the upgrade.

Wow! just been reading the Bugzilla too, peeps are not happy. I thought it was me :) I lost copy and paste for a while too.
Is it possible to go back to an older version of FF, or will it insist on being updated.?
 
! make !
! sure !
that you've clicked in the message window first.

You can get the same thing with the / key too !
 
Which version are you running - I thought there had been a fix for it in the early days of 2.0.
I haven't seen it in ages, but I run nightly trunk builds (what forms the Gran Paradiso alphas that'll eventually become Firefox 3.0). The bug (#311376) is full of so much "me too" spam that it's almost completely useless - if anyone's thinking of commenting then please don't unless you've got something completely new to say.

There's a hack to remap those keys to ones you don't use (here), but it really shouldn't be happening :(

Edit: Ah, there's a meta bug (#320465) with some of its components resolved fixed. I guess that's what I've seen.
 
It's v2.0.0.8 Tolien.
It's been fine since the update, then a couple of days ago it started with this prob, randomly.
And copy and paste keeps randomly disappearing too.:(

Should I do what it says in your link?
 
It's worth a pop I guess...though that link isn't the one I was thinking of (there was a site with a set of prefs.js hacks to change the ' and \ to other keys).

Edit: gotcha, it's this.

Open c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\toolkit.jar\content\global\findBar.js
open that file with winrar, and change:

const CHAR_CODE_SLASH = “/”.charCodeAt(0);
const CHAR_CODE_APOSTROPHE = “‘”.charCodeAt(0);

to say:

const CHAR_CODE_SLASH = “”.charCodeAt(0);
const CHAR_CODE_APOSTROPHE = “”.charCodeAt(0);

(replace c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox with whichever directory you installed FF to if not default)
Click to expand...

Or you could change the keys to something else.
 
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