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Involuntary text highlighting

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cgalloway86
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When typing in Firefox, my text is highlighted after the fourth or fifth (though sometimes second) character. Thus, when I hit the next key, my prior text is replaced, making typing nigh impossible.

For context, tapping on my mousepad is not enabled, so I'm not accidentally highlighting the text on my own.

When typing in Firefox, my text is highlighted after the fourth or fifth (though sometimes second) character. Thus, when I hit the next key, my prior text is replaced, making typing nigh impossible. For context, tapping on my mousepad is not enabled, so I'm not accidentally highlighting the text on my own.

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Start Firefox in Use Troubleshoot Mode in Firefox to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).

See Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems and Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems

If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.

You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the Safe mode start window to disable all extensions.

You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")