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When I try to choose an autocomplete drop-down with an arrow key, Firefox scrolls the whole page

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When I am in a webpage, YouTube for example, and I type, autocomplete options appear below the text field. When I try to choose one of these options with the down arrow on my keyboard, it scrolls the whole page and doesn't select one of the autocomplete options below the field.

I have already turned on and off smooth scrolling and autoscrolling to see if it fixes the problem, but it doesn't. I am using Firefox Beta. I can't go back to the last version of Firefox because that one wouldn't allow my mouse to scroll.

Thanks for any help you might have!

When I am in a webpage, YouTube for example, and I type, autocomplete options appear below the text field. When I try to choose one of these options with the down arrow on my keyboard, it scrolls the whole page and doesn't select one of the autocomplete options below the field. I have already turned on and off smooth scrolling and autoscrolling to see if it fixes the problem, but it doesn't. I am using Firefox Beta. I can't go back to the last version of Firefox because that one wouldn't allow my mouse to scroll. Thanks for any help you might have!

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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May not be related to your problem but some of your Firefox Plugins are out-dated, so you need to Update them. Just go to the following link:

Check and tell if its working.

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Thanks, that fixed it.

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