Firefox – Get Your Arrow Keys to Scroll Properly

My friend, if a little cursor jumps all around the words on your screen when you use the arrow keys in Firefox, then you may have caret browsing mode turned on. Don’t panic.

Just hit your F7 key while in Firefox. It’s that simple! What it does is toggles caret browsing mode. When that mode is turned on, using the arrow keys and the pageup/pagedown keys will move the little caret/cursor around the text in the browser window instead of scrolling the page like you probably want.

Yeah, so somehow this mode got toggled for you. In Ubuntu it may be the default, at least for me.

Here’s where I found this answer.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) on Nov 17th, 2006 and is filed under Firefox.

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7 Responses to “Firefox – Get Your Arrow Keys to Scroll Properly”

  1. Jody says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 9:26 am

    This is also known as something like “select text with keyboard” in Firefox 1.5.

  2. Dale says:
    December 5th, 2006 at 5:42 am

    AHhhhhhhhhh…. thanks for this one! Its been driving me mad.

    Dale, Boston

  3. Elim says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks! That fixed it!

  4. Karl says:
    February 25th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    This first happened after an automatic update to 2.002, So i assumed it was a bug! It’s been driving me mad for two days, thank you for this posting! The solution works!

  5. Louie says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Thanks, did the trick.

  6. andrew says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Ah Thanks. I too thought it was bug. I just finished disabling all of my firefox extensions, thinking one of them was the culprit. Now I can re-enable them :)

  7. Anonymous says:
    December 4th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    thanks, I thought I had to go back to safari…