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I use accented characters to write French. When I type Alt+147, with Num Lock On, to type the "ô" character--FIREFOX throws me out. I lose the window.

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michelmullejans
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All other environments accept all and any character typed with Num Lock activated and [Alt] + Code [example: Alt+130 is é. Firefox does not accept the French character "ô" (Alt + 147). This is a show stopper for me... bye-bye Firefox... 'snif'

All other environments accept all and any character typed with Num Lock activated and [Alt] + Code [example: Alt+130 is é. Firefox does not accept the French character "ô" (Alt + 147). This is a show stopper for me... bye-bye Firefox... 'snif'

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cor-el
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What happens if you type Alt+147? Do you get the home page (Alt+7)? Does this also happen with other codes that contain any of those numbers?

cor-el
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Ok. I see in another thread that Firefox is crashing when you press Alt+7.

What happens if you disable Num lock? Does Firefox crash then as well or does that give you the home page?