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firefox - there is a cursor on each web page that ruins scrolling. any help?
for some reason there is a cursor that persists on webpages as i browse. when you scroll, the cursor moves down the right side of the page jumping from one tabbed item to the next. browsing is a pain in the ass as you can't scroll normally with the arrow keys.
this is not happening with my other browsers.
i am on a mac.
this is not happening with my other browsers.
i am on a mac.
I’m frustrated
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I think I've got your solution. There is a cursor keys setting underneath Advanced > General settings. See below:
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Inappropriate?Hmmm... I'm using Firefox (2.0.0.6) on a Mac and not seeing this problem. What version are you using? Or could it be a setting?
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Inappropriate?Hi amy. i know thor from his RRL work with pivotal. seems you have a new addition arriving soon! congrats!
its a setting definitely, but i just cant figure out what is going on. imagine the browser thinks every webpage is an editable document and puts a right justified blinking cursor on the page that tries to move down the page as you use the arrows. since i ain't a developer, i have no idea why this would be happening. its a minor irritation, BUT its all the sudden plaguing my GFs mac and she's a little pissed at me because i keep installing add-ons and such that she doesnt use.
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Inappropriate?Weird. I'll ping the rest of our team and see if anyone has any ideas what the setting could be and how to fix it.
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Inappropriate?I think I've got your solution. There is a cursor keys setting underneath Advanced > General settings. See below:
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Inappropriate?genius dude! dunno which ghost checked that one in the last 24 hours. thanks. there won't be any spit in my dinner tonight :)
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You probably turned on 'Caret Browsing' by mistake. F7 key toggles the Caret Browsing mode ON/OFF. It is an accessibility feature documented at http://www.mozilla.org/access/features.
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Inappropriate?I had the same problem and found this page in search of a solution. Thanks to tommyp for asking and Cameron for providing an answer. -
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Inappropriate?Same thing happened to me and this fixed it! My dog sat on my keyboard, so it is activated with some shortcut it seems.
Thanks for the help.
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Inappropriate?My daughter activated it with her one-year-old typing. Thank you so much for the answer on how to fix it!
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Inappropriate?hahaha , happy. that'sexactly what happened to me too. my one year old daughter loves to bang on the keyboard and must have activated this feature via a key shortcut. thanks for the fix, y'all -
Inappropriate?Thank you thank you thank you! Been searching for a fix for this for AGES. Had no idea that was the solution. Wonder why I had that box checked ??? I'll never know.
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Inappropriate?Thanks so much. I saw this setting, but I thought it meant to scroll using the dpad...
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Inappropriate?THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am not sure how it happened, but it started being a problem for me last night and has made browsing the biggest pain. I am very thankful!
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Inappropriate?I think both Mahesh Asolkar and Cameron Walters got this. This is a mode called "caret browsing" that's used for keyboard-only navigation.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibili...
http://www.mozilla.org/access/keyboar...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_na...
http://lifehacker.com/software/featur...
As Mahesh Asolkar suggested, this mode can most easily be toggled with the F7 key - when it's on, a cursor's displayed, and a lot of navigation behaviors work differently to make keyboard navigation sufficiently precise to reach any text or image on the page, save for those that are displayed by a plugin. -
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Inappropriate?Thank you so much. I walk away from my laptop to answer the door, my little girl starts "typing" and next thing I know there is a cursor everywhere in Firefox. Thanks for the quick and easy fix!
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Inappropriate?OMG THANK YOU!!! This feature was driving me crazy! thanks for the help solving it!
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