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up down button dont work properly

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Thepimp1985

hi suddenly my up/down/pgup don't work properly. if i press the down arrow it goes to the end of the page if i press the up arrow nothing happens. if i press page up it will jump up a very small distance then jump further down. this on;y happens on firefox please help

hi suddenly my up/down/pgup don't work properly. if i press the down arrow it goes to the end of the page if i press the up arrow nothing happens. if i press page up it will jump up a very small distance then jump further down. this on;y happens on firefox please help

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Your System Details list shows that you have switched on caret browsing.

  • accessibility.browsewithcaret: True

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

Note that this is an accessibility feature of Firefox.

thank you my cat must have jump on my laptop greatly appreciated

Ha, ha, blame it on the cat! This problem has been vexing me for a long time, so I finally checked in here, and voila! A solution. Thanks a bunch.