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Extra spaces, blank lines and unknown characters being added to text boxes

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dougsingsen
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Something strange has recently started happening when I compose messages in Gmail. I tried to submit a question about this in a Gmail help forum, but the same thing happened when I tried to enter text there, which made me think that rather than being a problem with Gmail alone, it was some kind of conflict between Gmail and Firefox. What happens is that apparently a ton of invisible characters and/or possibly tables of some kind are being added at the end of text I enter. In emails, this shows up as a ton of blank lines, spaces and missing-image icons. In the Gmail help forum, I was told that my entry was over 8000 characters, even though I had only entered less than 1000. Can anyone tell me what the f is going on here?

Something strange has recently started happening when I compose messages in Gmail. I tried to submit a question about this in a Gmail help forum, but the same thing happened when I tried to enter text there, which made me think that rather than being a problem with Gmail alone, it was some kind of conflict between Gmail and Firefox. What happens is that apparently a ton of invisible characters and/or possibly tables of some kind are being added at the end of text I enter. In emails, this shows up as a ton of blank lines, spaces and missing-image icons. In the Gmail help forum, I was told that my entry was over 8000 characters, even though I had only entered less than 1000. Can anyone tell me what the f is going on here?

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the-edmeister
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Do you have that problem when running in the Firefox SafeMode?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
Don't select anything right now, just use "Continue in SafeMode."

If not, see this:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+theme...

If so, try creating a new Profile:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

dougsingsen
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Thanks! That worked like a charm.