Firefox must press backspace twice to delete one charecter

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In Firefox in Ubuntu, when I type on some text area and I want to delete an English character I only need to press Backspace one time, but to delete an Arabic character I have to pressing Backspace twice. On some other websites I need to press Backspace once to delete an Arabic character but twice to delete an English character.

Why is this happening? And how can I fix it?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '23 at 01:00

In Firefox 109.0.1, as of 11 Feb 2023, the bug is back, and the fix now seems to require that editor.word_select.delete_space_after_doubleclick_selection also be set to true... at least it works on this PC. Thanks to Ravexina for pointing me in the right direction.

BTW, this issue is also present in the Windows version of Firefox, and it also inhibits Back Space repeat. sigh

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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I faced same problem after I upgraded my firefox to version 34 (in ubuntu trusty). A dirty and quick solution is to downgrade firefox. I followed this to downgrade firefox from version 34 to 28 and now the problem is gone.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Dec 16 '14 at 06:42

Meysam

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 27 '14 at 12:02

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There is a bug report on Launchpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1405930

answered Dec 27 '14 at 12:02

akfoss

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Please say that as a comment not an answer... – Hamed Kamrava Dec 27 '14 at 12:07
I am not privileged to do that because of not having enough reputations. – akfoss Dec 27 '14 at 14:13

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 27 '14 at 20:40

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To fix this issue you should open the about:config page and change the value of bidi.edit.delete_immediately key from false to true.

edited Dec 27 '14 at 20:40

Eric Carvalho

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Firefox must press backspace twice to delete one charecter

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