+ and - keys no longer zooming in Firefox

[Liam Proven]

2009/2/17 David Tuñón <davidtf at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 14:34, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is odd. A few days ago, the numeric keypad [+] and [-] keys
>> stopped working for text zoom in Firefox. I'm on 3.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.10,
>> all current, everything else working fine. No recent software changes.
>
> I try CRTL + and CRTL - right now in my Firefox 3.0.6 and it is working.
> Have you tried using View ->Zoom options instead of the shortcut?

Yes, zooming still works, it is the shortcut keys that do not.

> You can also try this key combination in another application like gnome
> terminal and see what happens.

I don't know of any other apps I have that use Ctrl-[+]/[-] to zoom...
It doesn't do anything in GNOME terminal. (Well, actually, it prints
"other other"...)

(Experimenting)

Aha! It looks like my numeric keypad isn't typing characters at all...
OK, I shall try a reboot, a disconnect/reconnect & failing that,
another physical keyboard.

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