Typing comma on Firefox with num pad prints pipe on the screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Thom May |
Bug Description
Typing a comma (,) with the num pad gets interpreted as pipe (|) in Firefox.
Typing comma from the alphabets gives correctly comma but not from the num pad.
A bit annoying especially when doing online banking. All other applications
(OOo, gedit...) seem to work correctly with both alphabet portion and numpad
portion of the keyboard.
I encountered the same problem with Mozilla when using Mandrake and it was fixed
later with an update. Somebody at the users board said it was caused because
Mozilla didn't respect the KDE settings or something. This is probably related
so maybe the fix exists.
I'm running Hoary and Firefox 1.0 with a finnish keyboard. It seems that other
finnish users have the same problem
(http://
More informations and an untested patch at http:// bugs.debian. org/235125