When typing online to reply to emails the cursor jumps around constantly making it a slow painful process.
Doesn't happen with offline typing.
Chosen solution
The suggestion came from Tony John who posted an article about his research of the problem on a site called Techulator in June 2011. He narrowed it down to Windows 7 with touchpad, which I have. As he said, it is really up to Windows to solve it but the touchfreeze utility works when you download it, and it's worked for me.
"The solution to cursor jumping problem was to use a utility called 'touchfreeze' which will freeze your cursor while you type, thus avoiding the jumping problem."
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.
A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?
Note that Lastpass has been reported to cause this issue.
Mozilla tells me I don't have any add-ons but I do get autofill all the time on the internet. What is the best way to turn that off? Just typing this reply was a chore, although better if I slow the typing speed way down.
You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.
I found the solution elsewhere on line: downloading a free app called "touchfreeze".
That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.
What does "touchfreeze" do?
Chosen Solution
The suggestion came from Tony John who posted an article about his research of the problem on a site called Techulator in June 2011. He narrowed it down to Windows 7 with touchpad, which I have. As he said, it is really up to Windows to solve it but the touchfreeze utility works when you download it, and it's worked for me.
"The solution to cursor jumping problem was to use a utility called 'touchfreeze' which will freeze your cursor while you type, thus avoiding the jumping problem."
Very interesting.