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Dead keys for French accents not working on Firefox Ubuntu package

Bug #1924586 reported by baptx on 2021-04-15

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

Since at least last year, Firefox from the Ubuntu package fails French accents that require a combination of keys like ê and ï.
However dead keys work on other programs like Thunderbird or Firefox binary from Mozilla.

I guess this issue happened after an update of the Firefox Ubuntu package, can you fix it?

Thanks.

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baptx (b4ptx) wrote on 2021-04-15:

Currently I am using Firefox 87.0 (64-bit) package from Lubuntu 20.04. My laptop is Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, revision 2 (French keyboard).

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baptx (b4ptx) wrote on 2021-04-15:

I noticed that typing the character ` works but I still cannot type the French accents mentioned earlier.

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baptx (b4ptx) wrote on 2021-04-18:

The problem was fixed in about:config by changing the preference focusmanager.testmode from true to false and restarting Firefox. It looks like the preference was added when I tried to use a custom profile with Selenium WebDriver:
https://twitter.com/baptx/status/1383767656608632836
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/1773