Blinking Cursor In Firefox

March 27th, 2008 Adrian Banks 3144 Views

I have recently re-installed Firefox, and was getting more and more annoyed by what seemed to be a blinking cursor appearing in web pages. After a bit of searching, I found out what it was thanks to Rishi who has had the same problem.

It is a feature called “Caret Browsing” which places a cursor in web pages so that text can be selected using only the keyboard. To turn the feature off, just press the F7 key or change the ‘accessibility.browsewithcaret’ option from the about:config page.

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4 Comments Add your own

1. pete | May 27th, 2008 at 13:06

Thanks! This has been annoying me for ages.
2. Nam | June 10th, 2008 at 13:09

Nice one! This has been really doing my head in also. Youcan’t browse pages correctly with this feature on. Thank you very much!
3. oniric | November 15th, 2008 at 16:06

Thank you very much, very annoying thing!
4. ronnie | January 25th, 2009 at 7:07

ahhhhhh, i don’t know why i didn’t search for a solution to this probem earlier….
thanks so much!. it was so annoying…