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Sometimes FireFox stops accepting Quotes, until I enter it a second time

Mike Liveright
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After a while and some "random" keyboard activity, I can not enter a quote, either Lower case or Upper case, (single or double), without hitting the key twice.

I expect that I have accidentally set FireFox to interpret the quote as a accent for foreign languages, but I want to know how to unset this mode rather than having to exit firefox and restart it.

Thanks...

After a while and some "random" keyboard activity, I can not enter a quote, either Lower case or Upper case, (single or double), without hitting the key twice. I expect that I have accidentally set FireFox to interpret the quote as a accent for foreign languages, but I want to know how to unset this mode rather than having to exit firefox and restart it. Thanks...

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You may have switched the keyboard layout to a keyboard that has dead keys to allow entering accented characters easily 'a -> á

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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)

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Text services and input languages > Details > Key Settings > Change Key Sequence

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Chosen Solution

You may have switched the keyboard layout to a keyboard that has dead keys to allow entering accented characters easily 'a -> á

See:

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)

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Text services and input languages > Details > Key Settings > Change Key Sequence

Mike Liveright
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Note The changing of the key settings for switching the keyboard and the shifting of the keyboard can also be done thru the 

   Taskbar:  Toolbars > Language bar 
    Right-Click of Keyboard-Icon > Settings
    Text Services > Settings > Key Settings 
        "To Switch between languages" > (None)

                 and if you want: 
         "To Turn Off Caps Lock" > (*) Press the SHIFT Key

I think