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Any way to cancel a text selection?

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I'm using Firefox on the Samsung Galaxy S4. While I really like it for the most part, there is one feature that causes me constant annoyance: the cut-and-paste function. I do appreciate how easy it is to cut and paste text in FF, but I often find myself accidentally selecting large blocks of text when all I was doing was trying to scroll. But unlike in desktop browsers, there doesn't seem to be any way to cancel a selection, so all of this text gets copied to the clipboard. I'be learned how to clear the

I'm using Firefox on the Samsung Galaxy S4. While I really like it for the most part, there is one feature that causes me constant annoyance: the cut-and-paste function. I do appreciate how easy it is to cut and paste text in FF, but I often find myself accidentally selecting large blocks of text when all I was doing was trying to scroll. But unlike in desktop browsers, there doesn't seem to be any way to cancel a selection, so all of this text gets copied to the clipboard. I'be learned how to clear the

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I don't have an android device on me ATM, but if you click in the url bar or somewhere else in the browser does it cancel the text selection?