Weird input issues.. way weird

[Kalmah]

Not only is my mouse being flunky but my keyboard is way out of wack.

Any time I try to use a slash or a semi-colon or an apostrophe firefox brings up the quick search menu and wont let me type the apostrophe. It puts my curser in the quick search box.. I close it.. try typing my apostrophe again only to find my curser back in a quick search box.

Oh.. left and right arrows down work either to scroll back to previously typed text. It does nothing.

Ive (damnit.. cant put apostrophe in ive contraction or the word cant.. ugh cant arrow back to fix typos without using mouse to click after the typo)

ive done alot of changes to my computer lately.. I installed ubuntu as a dual boot along side my previous windows xp installation.. upgraded firefox.. bought a new mouse.. My bios is set to detect usb keyboards before boot.. I wonder if my bios could even have something to do with it?

I dont(damnit stupid quick search!#!@## when trying to type dont)
I dont know where to even try to look for a solution.

Any ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

If it only happens in FF then its lily some setting there that is off. You may need to unistall FF completely. That also means going into the registry and deleting the FF folder there. That way your sure no saved settings are left behind. Then reistall. If it persists then another option would be your BIOS. Sometimes if the data in the CMOS has problems it will cause USB/PS2 problems which are most often seen when using the KB and mouse. While the CMOS clearing is a long shot at least its a quick and easy one to do and won't hurt anything.

 

[Kalmah]

Yep, it appears to be firefox only. I'm replying with IE now.

I guess I'll start by disabling all addons and go from there.

Thanks for you reply.