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How do I turn off caret browsing PERMANENTLY???

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Within the past 10 days this function keeps returning. I press F7 and click on no. Thirty minutes later the blinking cursor returns. I want to completely disable caret browsing.

Within the past 10 days this function keeps returning. I press F7 and click on no. Thirty minutes later the blinking cursor returns. I want to completely disable caret browsing.

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Type about:config in the URL bar and hit Enter.
If you see the warning, you can confirm that you want to access that page.

accessibility.browsewithcaret_shortcut.enabled = double-click to turn it to false

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It's already set to false.

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I upgraded to 5.0 and this started happening to me, the cursor constantly blinking at different times on different web pages. Sometimes it would just blink in one tab when I had more than one open. I have been on a full day and it didn't blink at all, then the next day it would. No variables were the same, no reasoning for it. I have tried everything to get it fixed and my solution was to downgrade back to 3.6. Not the best of solutions but I wanted to keep using Firefox so was the only option open to me.

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

In Firefox 4 and later Safe mode disables extensions and disables hardware acceleration.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.

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Has anyone had any luck with this problem? I've tried everything. about:config, checking the box in Advanced options (it keeps unchecking itself), safe mode, etc. Nothing seems to work and caret browsing keeps turning itself on. I'm switching to chrome for now.

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