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all web pages appear with a blinking cursor like in a "word document". i can't scroll down or up using the buttons of my key board. i have to pull down the scroll bar. something in settings has changed. how to correct it??

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all web pages appear with a blinking cursor like in a "word document". i can't scroll down or up using the buttons of my key board. i have to pull down the scroll bar. something in settings has changed. how to correct it??

This happened

Just once or twice

== 2 days ago.

all web pages appear with a blinking cursor like in a "word document". i can't scroll down or up using the buttons of my key board. i have to pull down the scroll bar. something in settings has changed. how to correct it?? == This happened == Just once or twice == 2 days ago.

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Press F7 again.

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sorted it out. it was in the -

tools - options - advanced - accessability - tick off in the first box.

don't know pressing F7 does the same trick. will sure check out. thanks btw.

gururaj r j

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thanks anonymous. checked out F7. you are right. it does the same thing. appreciate that.

gururaj r j

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See also this article about caret browsing: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Scrolling_with_arrow_keys_no_longer_works

In Firefox 3.6 and later versions you can disable the F7 shortcut that toggles caret browsing by setting the pref accessibility.browsewithcaret_shortcut.enabled to false.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.