Last night, I was typing an address into Firefox, and I looked up to see that it was typed exactly backwards, like:
moc.elgoog.www
Now, I’m not dyslexic. I haven’t had a stroke. I typed it correctly the first time.
Anybody ever had this happen? I just completed a virus scan, and two malware scans (Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D).
Am I being pranked? The only thing I’ve found on the net is this Youtube vid:
Anybody got the straight dope?
.em rof enif skroW
Is it possible that your left arrow key got either stuck down or leaned on? That would cause the cursor to keep jumping to the front of the line.
No, my arrow appears to work perfectly, and I don’t lean on it while typing.
Which version of Firefox?
The current version, 3.0.10 was just released. It came out earlier than expected because 3.0.9 had stability issues.
3.0.10
What happened after that? Did everything return to normal with having to do anything? It didn’t happen again, or in another program?
My first guess is you somehow switched to Arabic or Hebrew and so type goes right-to-left.
?tahw woN .us ot no s’eH .nam hO
iaznaB oorakcuB
I went “WTF?”, and retyped it. It went through fine the second time.
Same thing happened to me the other day.
You’ve hit the shortcut for Right-To-Left mode in Firefox. I don’t know what it is off hand, but it’s there.
Ctrl + Shift + X in a textbox. Try it.
Actually, this isn’t what you’re talking about. It’s useful to know anyway though.
Weird.
Sidenote: I use backwards Google all the time in teaching Internet research (as trivia mainly to keep the attention of the students, but it does keep their interest). For those who don’t know it began as a novelty but proved surprisingly practical use in skipping merrily past filters in some places, until most filters started banning backwards google. It has a lot of mirror sites, and since google has that “did you mean Engelbert Humperdink?” feature if you accidentally search for Bernatel Dingyhump", some will ask "did you mean here (where here is an elgoog) if you misspell google in certain ways. And of the course the Internet Jews LOVE to redirect you.
Internet Jews? 
That started out as a completely normal post…
I’ve had that problem a few times at the office, usually versions in the 3.0.x region, and only after having it open for quite some time. It also doesn’t type perfectly backwards, at least it didn’t for me if I typed fast vs. slow. Could have been that java bug, dunno. Restarting always fixed it for me.
Thank heavens, I was afraid everyone else knew what “Internet Jews” is about, and that it is just ANOTHER example of how pathetically unhip I have become in my bat-hood.
Has happened to me at work a few times. Only thing I can do it to close out of Firefox, use the task manager to kill the extra version that remains running, and start over.
Hmm. I’m going to make a broad assumption and say that you’re a user of Facebook. And being a user of Facebook, you probably also participate in those “What is your Elf name?” or “Which Disney character are you?” kind of apps.
Am I wrong?