533101 - Text cursor always appears where text editing isn't possible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Whenever I use firefox and click anywhere on a webpage, a blinking text editing cursor appears as if I'm viewing the page in a Word document. The text isn't edited, but when I try to press the down-arrow to scroll down, the cursor just moves down to the line under it (still, as if the web page were a word document); needless to say, the scrolling is difficult and annoying. Pressing page down is mostly useless; on most pages, the page snaps back to wherever the cursor is whenever I press PgDn.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Opened FireFox browser.
2. Clicked anywhere on the webpage
3. Blinking cursor is permanently shown on that page; scrolling is more difficult
Actual Results:  
The same thing happened.

Expected Results:  
When a blank space on a page is clicked, the blinking line normally doesn't show up. The page should normally scroll easily and not behave like Notepad or a Word document.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

You accidentally switched on caret browsing I think. Press f7 to switch off and on.

Comment 2

[Ken]

Yup, it was caret browsing. Thanks!