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I've got an Aspire One and for a while now it seems to think of everything on Firefox in terms of a text document that I can't edit. Hitting the down arrow key on websites has my text-cursor move down the page one line at a time or just jump all the way to the bottom- I'm guessing it does this when the text cursor is outside one large frame or something. I'll also be scrolling around the page and accidentally hitting space will jump the page to some other area- probably because I'd clicked that region earlier and my text-cursor's there. Anyone know anyway I can get my Firefox back to normal without reinstalling?
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Gonna need a little more information skip. Strictly speaking most rendered pages are "text documents you can't edit".
Your down arrow behavior and the spacebar are probably arising from inconsistent focus behavior compared to what you're used to. When you hit a text input key on an html page, the behavior of the browser can and will vary based on the current focus (a concept sort of similar to cursor or active window, it basically denotes what the computer thinks you're focused on).
Best way to clear out focus from a form is to click on a dead space in the page before downarrowing.
You know how when you write in a text box and your text cursor, when using the arrow keys on the text you've written, moves a single character left or right and one line up or down at a time? That's what my text-cursor's doing. I know it shouldn't be there- I know to click dead space if the cursor's in an actual text box already- but Firefox is treating everything as though I am in an open document and will only scroll down the page when the text-cursor gets to the bottom of the visible field. Does anyone know how to fix this?
That's a strange one. Definitely would recommend backing up your bookmarks and trying to reinstall firefox, but my gut guess is that might not fix it.
You're in caret mode, press f7 to toggle it off.
Thank you! Christ, it's been this way for months! Thanks!