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down arrow keys not working for one line on laptop

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cautious637
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the one line down arrow keys do not work. how do i fix? down arrow equals page end and up arrow equals page top. am using win 7 on acer laptop. version of firefox is unknown

the one line down arrow keys do not work. how do i fix? down arrow equals page end and up arrow equals page top. am using win 7 on acer laptop. version of firefox is unknown

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You may have switched on caret browsing.

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

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is an accessibility feature of Firefox.

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You may have switched on caret browsing.

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

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is an accessibility feature of Firefox.