+ and - keys no longer zooming in Firefox

[Rashkae]

Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
> 

This might be an absurd question,, but have you tried the Numlock Key?
Normally, numlock doesn't affect the + - and Enter keys, but I have seen
non-standard keyboards that re-purpose these when Numlock is not on.