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17 January 2007

AskMeCha: Firefox cursor mode [More:]Just a quickie. I've apparently optioned myself into a Firefox mode where I have a text cursor on every webpage instead of an arrow, and to move down a page I have to ... cursor down. Page Down just moves me between the first and last HREF on the page, or something like that. I can't for the life of me remember what this is called -- except that I've inadvertently done the multi-key to activate it in the past, and gotten a dialog, which I've always canceled. Oh, and this persists between Firefox sessions and reboots, and does not appear in other FF profiles or other apps. Please hope me!
That, I believe (and I might be wrong), is caret browsing. F7 should toggle it. Also, there's an option in preferences to use the keyboard to navigate pages - see if that's checked.
posted by TheDonF 17 January | 13:52
That's it. Kudos, whuffies, and all that ...
posted by stilicho 17 January | 13:54
At least this got me to clean my keyboard (as a diagnostic step). Anybody want enough cat hair for a sweater?
posted by stilicho 17 January | 13:55
It may be a solution using a bigger hammer than you had in mind, but you can blow away all your user profile settings for Firefox, and it will come back using the out-of-box defaults.

Delete the contents of:

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

(On Preview: I'm too slow, and too brutish)
posted by Triode 17 January | 13:57
Triode, thanks, but that one I knew. ;-) I'm actually adept at Firefox profile manipulation using an ASCII editor, but I can only do that if I know what I'm looking for!
posted by stilicho 17 January | 15:28
I finally remembered -- it was the cat who triggered it. The fatass walked across the keyboard ... you know the rest.

I just hope there isn't a handy function key for "delete contents of C drive: Y/N".
posted by stilicho 17 January | 19:47
an angry response to relationship questions: (sorry) || Give the kid an 'A'

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