Keyboard acting strange in Safari since 10.8.2

When I am in Safari, I have noticed that in a lot of text boxes when I am typing, a lot of the time, after hitting space the cursor will go behind the word I have juse typed.
So it would show up like this 'This is test.a' Where it should be 'This is a test.'
It is happening all the time and I have only noticed it since 10.8.2. Is there anything I can try?
Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1Xwe1ywWA
This is what happens

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PD. ¿Eres español? Por favor vótame soy nuevo en esto y tengo muchos cocnocimientos pero la gente no me responde. Gracias y otro saludo.

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