Webpage jumps to bottom when I press down arrow. It is NOT Caret related
NOTE: My problem is NOT Caret browsing related. Sorry for the redundancy, just hoping I don't get a form response based on the first line of my post.
Problem is as follows. When I press down, SOME pages just go right to the bottom. Some do not. This page I am on right now does not, but half of the pages I have opened are. It seems really inconsistent. Facebook does it always. TV.com does it some of the time. Many other pages do it some or all of the time.
I have tried with both Caret browsing on, and off. When it is ON it does it to every page. When it is off it does it to some pages. I want to make it not happen to ANY pages. I have tried disabling it via f7, and then I tried with about:config. Nothing changed.
I uninstalled Firefox and downloaded the latest version, which as of 10 minutes ago was 26.0. Had to get the installer from a 3rd party site cause you refuse to host redistributable's on your page for some reason. but I digress. Absolutely no change. Uninstalled it again and restored my current one. Same thing
I have 4 different Firefox profiles as I use different ones for different things and have different mod configurations for each. The problem is across all 4 profiles.
I then made an entirely new profile (do this all the time) and tried it again. no history, default settings, no addons. No change
Once again, Caret browsing didn't fix it. Also, I do not want to use the "Always use the cursor to navigate within pages" as that only scrolls the page through text. Soon as you get to a chunk with no text it jumps that area till next part of text.
Here are some examples. None of these links are adult http://www.tv.com/ - Scrolling correctly. But if I go to a sub page it no longer scrolls right. Example: http://www.tv.com/shows/house/son-of-coma-guy-862303/ - DOES NOT SCROLL CORRECTLY. http://www.facebook.com - NEVER SCROLLS CORRECTLY. EVER. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur - Always scrolls correctly
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Screw it, going to chrome.
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Please update to the current Firefox 26 release.
- Help > About Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/update-firefox-latest-version.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Updating+Firefox
The Firefox version that you currently run is no longer supported with security updates.
- It is important to update Firefox and add-ons to the latest version to get all security fixes.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration
Note that caret browsing and "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages" are the same.
Caret browsing gives you a cursor on web pages and the cursor keys behave differently.
Modified by cor-el
Thank you for replying.
I will give you another thank you if you read my post now.
I DID update to the latest build. 26.0. I still have the exe on my comp.
When I confirmed that the problem persists I uninstalled and reinstalled 11. I don't like 26
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Screw it, going to chrome.
I visited that House page in Firefox 26 in a new profile and could not replicate the problem. I use an old fashioned wired keyboard, in case input devices are relevant.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Creating a profile":
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem.