MacBook Pro keyboard acting weird in Mail and Safari?

I had that problem when I was attempting to import the iPhone’s predictive text shell, but obviously that was causing… A LOT of problems in every app… So I don’t think that is your problem…
The only time I have seen something like that happen is with the wireless keyboards and mouse (mice?) or when using the iPhone and accessing the fluther webapp.
I really can’t think of any reason it would be happening in another program, I mean if it were just fluther, then you could blame them, but the fact that mail is doing it too….
Do you have any plugins that might be causing the problems? Or background scripts, perhaps?
Oh I did just think of something, perhaps the Mail app has a problem in it, and the App is reading input when it shouldn’t be, as in, perhaps there is a small fleck of dirt, pressing the key, but only type sensitive apps, such as Word, Mail, or the internet, are reading it as input… I know you can tell different apps on a mac to read keystrokes differently.
I am not sure, I am just thinking out in pixels right now.

My advice would be to 1) clean the board, then 2) reinstall Mail, and\or Safari, and\or OS X.

Do you have click enabled in trackpad gestures? It’d be under your mouse settings in system prefs.

Alot of times its easy to accidently touch the trackpad with a thumb while typing, which would relocate your cursors location.

Yes click is on, but I’m trying to keep my thumbs in the space bar.

I’ll drag this thing to the Apple Store tonite, will post on the outcome.

Thx all

It’s the touchpad. I had similar issues and just had to learn to keep my thumbs away from the damn thing.

And why aren’t you using Firefox and Thunderbird? Safari and Mail are nice, but very limited compared to Mozilla products.

@mac

Agree on Firefox, can’t really warm up to Thunderbird for some reason. The jumping it seems came from “Ignore accidental input” being deactivated in the system preferences. So one error solved TATAAAAAA.

There is still the issue of hitting the delete key in a text box on Fluther will simultaneously trigger the browsers “Back” function, happens in Safari and Firefox.

@TaoSan: glad you got one issue sorted.

I would guess that your issue with the delete key triggering Firefox’s back function (which it is supposed to do if the cursor isn’t in a text input field) would be related to one or more extensions. Then I’d suggest that you either try disabling extensions one-by-one until you find the culprit, or – since it may be the result of two or more extensions conflicting with each other – start with a fresh profile and add extensions until the problem comes back, thereby identifying the cause.

However, since you also experience the same problem in Safari, maybe none of that applies. Maybe it’s something else. <shrug>

@jason: if the cursor is in an input field, it will allow for normal backspace functions, otherwise, it will command Firefox and Safari to go back a page. So will Apple (cmd) – back/left arrow.

@maccmann: of course. But TaoSan says he’s getting sent back to the previous page even when the cursor is in a text box.

The Genius at the Genius Bar wasn’t so Genius as his only remedy was reinstalling OSX.

Not happy about the time spent, but the issue with input fields is solved now.

One observation though, it all happened after I installed the M$ Office 2004 to 2008 update :(

Microsoft on OSX feels like my Mac being “soiled” ;)

Thanks for your help all!

ICK! Stay away from 2008. It sucks major moose balls. Go back to 2004. Trust me.

I hear that!!!! I was so eager to see the new Entourage, but was terribly disappointed :(