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[Bug 852537] [NEW] Characters spontaneously scrambled in Gmail

 

Public bug reported:

While typing an email, suddenly all the characters in the text area was
changed to completely different ones (see the anonymized attachment),
without any message or other sign of weirdness. It is the first time
this has happened, in any application, after many years of using the
same OS and browser. I tried to delete part of the text and undoing
(Ctrl-Z), and the *original* version of the *deleted* text came back
(but the rest of the text stayed scrambled). This leads me to believe
that it's a browser or OS issue, not a plugin issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 17 14:13:34 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.7ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity

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Title:
  Characters spontaneously scrambled in Gmail

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While typing an email, suddenly all the characters in the text area
  was changed to completely different ones (see the anonymized
  attachment), without any message or other sign of weirdness. It is the
  first time this has happened, in any application, after many years of
  using the same OS and browser. I tried to delete part of the text and
  undoing (Ctrl-Z), and the *original* version of the *deleted* text
  came back (but the rest of the text stayed scrambled). This leads me
  to believe that it's a browser or OS issue, not a plugin issue.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Sep 17 14:13:34 2011
  FirefoxPackages:
   firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
   flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.7ubuntu0.11.04.1
   adobe-flashplugin N/A
   icedtea-plugin N/A
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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