Why does Firefox jump to the menu bar when I type single letters - b, f, e, t...

The letters are acting as shortcuts to the menubar making it impossible to type in google search or other fields.

Alt does not appear to be stuck. I am back to 3.6 now and it is working fine. But when I hold down the alt key and press b or t etc.. it goes to the menu bar in the same way it would before. So perhaps that had something to do with it. Firefox 3.6 is working much better - including no flash update bs on youtube. Thank you.

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