This problem is occuring to many people. Just look at the duplicates and search at google. Maybe https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/597399 has some good explanation of what is going on.
I personally experience this problem for a long time now. probably since the release of 10.04 and still on 10.10. This is happening to me on many different machines. -- firefox occasionally highlights contents of form fields while typing thereby overwriting previously entered keystrokes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583122 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs