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When scrolling on facebook it will jump 2 - 10 or more posts. This happens using both the scroll bar and button

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When scrolling on facebook it will jump 2 - 10 or more posts. This happens using both the scroll bar and button

When scrolling on facebook it will jump 2 - 10 or more posts. This happens using both the scroll bar and button

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There are several threads here and several bug reports. If you want to follow the progress see below.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779404

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It's not only Facebook that scrolls erratically. This support page is doing it too, even though the page is formatted differently!

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You may have switched on caret browsing. You can toggle caret browsing off/on by pressing F7 (Mac: fn + F7).

  • Settings -> General -> Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

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I checked my Settings => General => Browsing, and the "Always use the cursor keys" was already unchecked.