Blinking Cursor in Firefox – Accessibility Caret Browsing
November 20th, 2008 by NikhilIn Firefox… sometimes you might have noticed that the cursor starts blinking on the screen. It might happen when you click on any element on the page , a division or an image etc. This Blinking Cursor in the browser window is actually an ACCESSIBILITY Feature of FireFox called ‘caret browsing’. This features allows/enables users to select text on the page with the keyboard ( Which we normally tend to do with the use of our mouse).
Well! if you donot want this feature … simple press “F7” to toggle it to false and vice-versa ( if you want it ON). You could also type “about:config” in the address bar (type in “caret” in the filter box) and simply double click to change the option “accessibility.browsewithcaret” from “true” (turn caret browsing ON) to “false” ( turn caret browsing OFF)
Tags: FF Bugs, FF Fixes, FF Hacks, FF Issues, Firefox
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