my cursor blinks on all web sites
the cursor in firefox blinks on and off in the application
win vista
Chosen solution
by cor-elYou may have switched on caret browsing.
You can press press F7 (on Mac: fn + F7) to toggle caret browsing on/off.
- Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Scrolling_with_arrow_keys_no_longer_works
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility_features_of_Firefox
Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
after latest update
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.5.2"
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_33 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Picasa plugin
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- np-mswmp
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
More Information
Hi gdmatrix!
Can you download the latest version of Firefox and see if this still happens?
If that doesn't help, try running Firefox in safe-mode.
- Firefox -> Help -> Restart with add-ons disabled
If it works in safe-mode, that means one of your Add-on Extensions is causing the problem, which will require disabling them all, and then re-enabling them one by one to isolate the problem.
Chosen Solution
You may have switched on caret browsing.
You can press press F7 (on Mac: fn + F7) to toggle caret browsing on/off.
- Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
Question owner
Thank you for your help. That could of very well have happened in some frantic pecking.
Thanks again