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Firefox is placing a cursor in the html window of pages that cannot be edited messing up the scroll option using the arrow keys

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Whenever I click in a window pane to scroll using my arrow keys it is placing a cursor in the window and scrolling off of it, instead of scrolling the entire page by using the arrow key it is scrolling by the cursor location inside of the window like a word document.

Whenever I click in a window pane to scroll using my arrow keys it is placing a cursor in the window and scrolling off of it, instead of scrolling the entire page by using the arrow key it is scrolling by the cursor location inside of the window like a word document.

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Hit F7 to turn off caret browsing.

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

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Well I declare, I don't even know how it got turned on lol, thank you though

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Cats seem to like stepping on that particular key.