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Home, page-up, and page-down keys do not seem to work (to enable quick scrolling thru page) as they do in Opera etc??? How can I fix this please????? Thanks :-)

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b1dixon
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Would like to know why the home and page up/down keys on the keyboard do not seem to be working on my system

Would like to know why the home and page up/down keys on the keyboard do not seem to be working on my system

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cor-el
cor-el
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You may have switched on caret browsing.

You can press press F7 (on Mac: fn + F7) to toggle caret browsing on/off.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

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