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I accidentally edited something with inspect element, and now this cursor keeps binking on every page I go. How do I undo what I did and get rid of this thing?

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

  • Settings -> General -> Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

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Have you restarted Firefox since? As for as I know such changes are temporary.

thepillenwerfer said

Have you restarted Firefox since? As for as I know such changes are temporary.

yep, i've reinstalled firefox multiple times due to other issues, but it never went away

update: started using firefox nightly and the same issue persisted

Chosen Solution

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

  • Settings -> General -> Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

cor-el said

You may have switched on caret browsing. You can toggle caret browsing off/on by pressing F7 (Mac: fn+F7).
  • Settings -> General -> Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

It worked... thank you!!!