1918839 - the typing cursor will not go away

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect, P3)

Description

[jackfergen1]

Attachment: Eight Wonders Of Our Solar System _ The Planets _ BBC Earth Science - YouTube — Mozilla Firefox 2024-09-13 21-08-37.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Steps to reproduce:

Watched a video on Youtube and the typing cursor is in the bottom left-hand of the screen.

Actual results:

The typing cursor does not go away.

Expected results:

The typing cursor should not be there because there is nowhere to type anything.

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Do you have the Windows Text Cursor Indicator enabled? You can check this in Windows Settings by searching for and choosing text cursor indicator.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Or,
Have you enabled the caret browsing mode? If so, please disable it.
about:preferences > Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages

Comment 3

[jackfergen1]

Turning off "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages" seems to have worked.

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Thanks. The cursor is expected with that setting enabled.