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How do I stop my cursor from selecting things on the page? It shows up like I want to type something and when I press the down key it goes through all the words like its a word document.

AnonymousUser
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How do I stop my cursor from selecting things on the page? It shows up like I want to type something and when I press the down key it goes through all the words like its a word document.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== June 27, 2010

How do I stop my cursor from selecting things on the page? It shows up like I want to type something and when I press the down key it goes through all the words like its a word document. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == June 27, 2010

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the-edmeister
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You have caret browsing enabled - that preference appears as set in your Troubleshooting Information. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.browsewithcaret

Hit the F7 key to disable caret browsing.