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Why do I get a blinking edit cursor in some pages when I click inside the body?

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Knightingale
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On some pages, not all but I haven't seen a pattern, I get an blinking edit cursor in some pages when I click inside the body. This reporting page is one of them though, see the attached image.

On some pages, not all but I haven't seen a pattern, I get an blinking edit cursor in some pages when I click inside the body. This reporting page is one of them though, see the attached image.
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TyDraniu
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Try to press the F7 key.

Knightingale
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Ok, so that solves the issue but it doesn't explain why. It'd be helpful to know what can cause this problem and how to avoid if possible, on a webpage basis. Or is it a pure firefox issue?

TyDraniu
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Explanation: You accidentally pressed the F7 earlier.

cor-el
cor-el
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This is about switching on caret browsing. You can toggle caret browsing off/on by pressing F7 (Mac: fn + F7).

  • Options/Preferences -> General: Browsing
    remove checkmark: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is a Firefox accessibility feature.

McCoy
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Hello Knightingale,

In addition to the above, see :

https://www.askvg.com/how-to-turn-caret-browsing-on-or-off-in-mozilla-firefox/

BTW : On my Windows 10 laptop I also have to press the Fn key when I want to press any of the (red) F1 - F12 keys. All depends on your keyboard.