{"id":127,"date":"2009-08-16T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-08-16T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:07:10","slug":"firefox-3-on-windows-7-undocumented-key-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/08\/16\/firefox-3-on-windows-7-undocumented-key-combo\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3 on Windows 7 undocumented key combo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When using Firefox 3 on Windows 7, you may find that sometimes Firefox randomly converts some of your keystrokes into different keys. However, this has not yet been experienced on any other program on Windows 7 or Firefox on a different operating system. For example some of the keys that are &#8220;randomly translated&#8221; include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8221; &#8211; \u00c8<\/li>\n<li>&#8216; &#8211; \u00e8<\/li>\n<li>&lt; &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>&gt; &#8211; &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>? &#8211; \u00c9<\/li>\n<li>\/ &#8211; \u00e9<\/li>\n<li>{ &#8211; \u00a8<\/li>\n<li>[ &#8211; ^<\/li>\n<li>} &#8211; \u00c7<\/li>\n<li>] &#8211; \u00e7<\/li>\n<li>` &#8211; \\<\/li>\n<li>~ &#8211; \/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regular alphanumeric characters and the number pad to the right of the regular keyboard do not seem to be affected apart from the above mentioned ones. A current working workaround would be to press the<strong> Shift-Alt<\/strong> combination, which changes those characters back to their regular combos for a while. Currently, the only true workaround is to <strong>restart Firefox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This problem may or may not affect you, as it has only been reproduced with Firefox 3 on Windows 7 and on no other browser, application or operating system.<\/p>\n<p>If you found this article helpful or useful, please help Compdigitec spread the word. Don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/feed\/\">subscribe to Compdigitec Labs<\/a> for more useful or interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using Firefox 3 on Windows 7, you may find that sometimes Firefox randomly converts some of your keystrokes into different keys. However, this has not yet been experienced on any other program on Windows 7 or Firefox on a different operating system. For example some of the keys that are &#8220;randomly translated&#8221; include: &#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[527,558,557,528,863,60,559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}