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Firefox not working with Wacom stylus and tablet (suddenly)

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catmcbride
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As of this morning, Wednesday, February 16, 2011, Firefox is behaving weirdly with my Wacom tablet and stylus. All my other programs are working, and I've had to resort to using IE to post this. (HELP!)

Firefox makes the mouse pointer jump to weird locations on my monitors, I am working on a HP laptop, which is in turn attached to a docking station, which all my periphials are connected to. The tablet, keyboard, big Dell monitor. So I'll click on something in the Firefox window and the mouse pointer jumps to the far side of my big monitor (when I was clicking in the window on the laptop monitor).

It's super annoying and i can't work like this. Like I said, I've had to go to IE, which I don't like but i like the mouse jumping around even less.

Again, yesterday, Firefox and my tablet were working just fine, this morning... weirdness. I've checked with IT and they SAY there have been no updates on our end.

Any ideas? I'd love to go back to using FF but...

As of this morning, Wednesday, February 16, 2011, Firefox is behaving weirdly with my Wacom tablet and stylus. All my other programs are working, and I've had to resort to using IE to post this. (HELP!) Firefox makes the mouse pointer jump to weird locations on my monitors, I am working on a HP laptop, which is in turn attached to a docking station, which all my periphials are connected to. The tablet, keyboard, big Dell monitor. So I'll click on something in the Firefox window and the mouse pointer jumps to the far side of my big monitor (when I was clicking in the window on the laptop monitor). It's super annoying and i can't work like this. Like I said, I've had to go to IE, which I don't like but i like the mouse jumping around even less. Again, yesterday, Firefox and my tablet were working just fine, this morning... weirdness. I've checked with IT and they SAY there have been no updates on our end. Any ideas? I'd love to go back to using FF but...

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the-edmeister
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Maybe you inadvertently turned on the caret browsing feature. The feature is toggled on & off with the F7 key. 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.browsewithcaret
catmcbride
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Thank you for the idea, but unfortunately, no that is not the problem. I checked and it was turned off. I have figured out that for some reason when I have a FF window open and "active" the tablet reverts to "pen" mode for the mapping. Which means where you put the stylus on the tablet is where the pointer will show up on-screen. Which is why it appeared to be acting weirdly, it's not, it's acting like it should IF I had the tablet mapped for "pen", but I don't the properties are mapped for "mouse". Which means I should be able to put my stylus down on the tablet anywhere and the pointer stays in position until I move the stylus. HOW could FF be changing the mapping of my tablet? It makes no sense. SO annoying. I don't like using IE... are there any other browsers that are better?

catmcbride
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Ok, it's not FF, it's GMAIL. If I close my GMAIL window FF starts working "normally" again with my tablet. So no more GMAIL window in FF? Kinda strange? Rather annoying.