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Firefox (ver: 17.0.1) @ symbol.

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Rawen
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Firefox (ver: 17.0.1) on input fields that appear on Web pages can not write @ symbol. (This is copied to the clipboard.) Other browsers or applications, but yes, my keyboard is not so bad. What could be the problem?

Firefox (ver: 17.0.1) on input fields that appear on Web pages can not write @ symbol. (This is copied to the clipboard.) Other browsers or applications, but yes, my keyboard is not so bad. What could be the problem?

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cor-el
cor-el
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Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application and you may have changed the keyboard layout by accident via a keyboard shortcut.

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It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.

  • Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar.
  • You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar.
  • Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar.
  • You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application.
  • The default keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
  • To avoid an unintentional switch, assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift)