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Scrolling on a website, Firefox jumps back to the top of the page

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niklas
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Just some general feedback. When scrolling through a website like: https://www.coroflot.com/design-jobs# Firefox suddenly jumps back to the top of the page. This doesn't happen when I use other browsers such as Chrome or Safari.

Just some general feedback. When scrolling through a website like: https://www.coroflot.com/design-jobs# Firefox suddenly jumps back to the top of the page. This doesn't happen when I use other browsers such as Chrome or Safari.

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

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

  • Options/Preferences -> General: Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is is causing the problem.

  • switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Appearance
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window