From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060211 Fedora/1.0.7-1.3.fc3.legacy Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: A blinking cusor appears in the wab page. When using the up and down keys, the cursor moves up and down the page line by line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.7.12-1.3.3.legacy How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.load mozilla 2.visit any web page. click anywhere within the window. 3.use up or down key to scroll Actual Results: Blinking cursor moves up and down page. Page scrolls up or down only when cursor reaches top or bottom of page respectively. Scrolling is borked. Expected Results: Page should scroll imediately Additional info:
There is a poorly-documented feature in Mozilla called "caret browsing", which enables the behavior you are experiencing. The F7 key toggles this behavior on and off. Try pressing the F7 key and see if the browser resumes the normal behavior.
Yes, that was it. Thank you