[Karmic] Mouse Keys and keypad stopped working, and now Firefox loads Google as en.wikipedia.org's URL?? Weird!!!

[Zeniff]

Not sure if this is Firefox bug or Mouse Keys bug or Gedit bug.

Basically:
Using nearly freshly installed Karmic fully updated as of today (but haven't rebooted since installing today's updates).
Using Mouse Keys...sometimes stops working or does weird things.
Firefox now is loading Google in place of Wikipedia when going to http://en.wikipedia.org
No keyboard keys or mouse clicks have any effect in Gedit, had to end through System Monitor.

In detail... because really weird...
I was using Mouse Keys (can enable by Alt+Shift+Numlock and which is very hard to figure out, by the way, and could only find documentation referenced from Windows on Wikipedia. Gnome help docs has nothing.) and have been for a couple days now, trying it out.

Anyway, a few times before, Mouse Keys and the keypad just stopped working (maybe the real mouse clicks too, but I'm not sure.) This time, when I opened Firefox through Tomboy, I don't know what I did, but a menu I never saw before with what looked like previous searches appeared (not righ-click menu, and I have no extra add-ons). I could not reproduce it. Then I tried using Mouse Keys clicking around Gedit and only the secondary part of the right-click menu (the selection menu for "Insert Unicode Control Character") appeared any time I clicked. Then Gedit stopped responding to input completely. Next, I tried to check Wikipedia's article on Mouse Keys again, because I had tried the "+" key on the keypad and that's when things started going weird in Gedit. Anyway, I searched through the default Wikipedia Search-plugin, but Google came up instead, and said it couldn't find anything. I then found by going to en.wikipedia.org (which I had been to before) didn't work. Also, going to www.google.com showed that this other Google was slightly different. The weird Wiki Google clone didn't show I was online in Google and said English at the side, but Google.com didn't. Firefox's page info also said it couldn't verify the owner.

Sorry for so much detail... but it's really weird... I'm not sure if it's security-related, because it seemed to mess up Firefox in a weird way... (or is Wikipedia just messed up right now? www.wikipedia.org works fine...)

I just closed Gedit through System Monitor... and now en.wikipedia.org is back to normal.... and so is Mouse Keys.... This is really weird.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 15 02:39:07 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: firefox 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1749): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1749): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1799): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1786): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1782): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Zeniff (zeniffmartineau)]

Now it happened trying to load a page at help.ubuntu.com O_O it's weird.... it couldn't find anything on a search page which I had left open previously when I restarted Firefox. It told me to contact <email address hidden>... but I don't think Google takes care of Ubuntu's server...? See the picture attachment.

[Zeniff (zeniffmartineau)]

Sorry, forgot to mention in comment 2, it was back to normal after I rebooted and refreshed, but that was just 5 min ago, so not sure if it will happen again...

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

I´ve assigned this bug to the firefox-3.5 package. Thank You for making Ubuntu better.