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keyboard appears on screen and mouse acts strangely

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Mouse/cursor acts strangely - little star appears in a circle and web pages disappear. Also, an image of a keybpard keeps showing up on my screen

Mouse/cursor acts strangely - little star appears in a circle and web pages disappear. Also, an image of a keybpard keeps showing up on my screen

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

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Can you attach a screenshot?

If you press the mouse wheel then you might accidentally activate the auto-scroll feature.

  • Options/Preferences -> Advanced -> General: Browsing:
    "Use autoscrolling"