I cannot type accent marks in firefox 4
Firefox 4, Mac OX 10.6.7
I Firefox 3 I could type an accent mark using the US keyboard by pressing the option key. For example to type é, I would type option e followed by e.
Now in Firefox 4,the only way to type the accent marks is to use the French keyboard. Is there a fix for this or is this a bug in Firefox 4?
All Replies (3)
Such a composition of characters is usually handled by the OS and Firefox shouldn't have effect on it.
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1518 - Mac OS X: How to type special characters, including Symbol or Zapf Dingbat fonts
- http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards2.asp - Typing Special Characters on a Macintosh Keyboard
Thank you for your reply. I have discovered that the problem is not Firefox but related to Web pages that I have been using. I occurs on the oli.web.cmu.edu French Course pages. I don't have this problem otherwise. So consider the problem solved.
Let me amend my let reply. The problem of typing accents marks seems to occur only when Firefox is on a page which uses Adobe Flash. To summarize:
1. Cannot type accent marks using Firefox on certain pages which use Flash. 2. Problem does not occur using Safari.