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I have a blinking cursor whereever I click on whatever website, any suggestions?

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Hello all...

Unfortunately I cannot remember exactly when my problem started, but it must have been around the time FF8ß was installed on my system. Everytime I use FF now, I have a blinking cursor whereever I click inside a webpage. It is extremely annoying, being "able" to click on any piece of text on a page and have that blinking cursor sitting there, which I can move around, using the arrow-keys on the keyboard, as this limits the ability to maneuvre a webpage with the help of these buttons as well as the pageup/down-buttons. It is like the whole text of a website is editable as if working on it in MS Word or a texteditor, but obviously without the ability to actually change anythign. Problem also occurs in safemode.

Any help is appreciated!

Hello all... Unfortunately I cannot remember exactly when my problem started, but it must have been around the time FF8ß was installed on my system. Everytime I use FF now, I have a blinking cursor whereever I click inside a webpage. It is extremely annoying, being "able" to click on any piece of text on a page and have that blinking cursor sitting there, which I can move around, using the arrow-keys on the keyboard, as this limits the ability to maneuvre a webpage with the help of these buttons as well as the pageup/down-buttons. It is like the whole text of a website is editable as if working on it in MS Word or a texteditor, but obviously without the ability to actually change anythign. Problem also occurs in safemode. Any help is appreciated!

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Hit F7 to turn off the Caret browsing mode. It's an accessibility feature.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.browsewithcaret

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Hit F7 to turn off the Caret browsing mode. It's an accessibility feature.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.browsewithcaret

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Mother of God - that's it! Thanks to you, sir! I was googling for "firefox feature blinking cursor" but that really did not get me anywhere. ;)

Thanks again...