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In Firefox 73.0.1(64bit), Windows 10 Home, how to make cursor wider? - setting ui.caret to 5 in about:config makes no difference

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carrt7
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Firefox cursor (e.g. when typing URL into box at top of screen) is hard to see. Visiting about:config confirms that ui.caret is now set to 5, but no improvement. Have latest version of Windows 10 Home, on new Lenovo ThinkPad Extreme Gen 2 PC. Setting cursor to thicker in Libre Office works in documents, but makes no difference when typing into Firefox.

Firefox cursor (e.g. when typing URL into box at top of screen) is hard to see. Visiting about:config confirms that ui.caret is now set to 5, but no improvement. Have latest version of Windows 10 Home, on new Lenovo ThinkPad Extreme Gen 2 PC. Setting cursor to thicker in Libre Office works in documents, but makes no difference when typing into Firefox.

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Did you try theses settings ?

  • ui.caretWidth = 16
  • ui.caretBlinkTime = -1 (disable blink)
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McCoy
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Hello carrt7,

Would you please take a look at this article :

https://www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/how-to-change-the-cursor-and-make-your-touch-visible-on-your-windows-10-laptop/

I experimented with it a bit and it works like a charm.

carrt7
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Thanks, but does not solve the problem. Settings > EaseOfAccess leads to a slightly different dialog box, with "Display, Cursor/Pointer, Magnifier, ...., Mouse, Eye-Control" options listed on left.

Cursor/Pointer > ChangePointerSize increases the Windows arrowhead mouse pointer (and I-beam pointer over text). Cursor/Pointer > ChangeCursorThickness thickens the Windows while-typing vertical-line cursor perfectly.

But unfortunately neither of these affect the Firefox vertical-line cursor, e.g. while typing in a URL at the top of the screen, or while typing this reply. I attach a screen-shot, but unfortunately Windows will not display the Firefox text cursor when the Fn-PrintScr combination is pressed - you can only see the Windows pointer size and cursor thickness.

cor-el
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Did you try theses settings ?

  • ui.caretWidth = 16
  • ui.caretBlinkTime = -1 (disable blink)
McCoy
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Maybe take a look at the solution in this thread :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1280609

carrt7
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cor-el said

Did you try theses settings ?
  • ui.caretWidth = 16
  • ui.caretBlinkTime = -1 (disable blink)

about:config > ui.caretwidth = 16 made no difference, but about:config > ui.caretWidth = 16 works perfectly! Sorry, didn't realize it is case-sensitive. Thanks to all. Tony

McCoy
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Hello Tony,

You inadvertently marked your own post as Chosen Solution instead of
cor-el's ....

You can rectify it by clicking on the "Undo" button to the right of your post, and then click on the "Solved the problem" button to the right of cor-el's post.

Thank you in advance !