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Old 01-18-2006, 07:49 PM   #1
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Stupid little scrolling question

Ok there has to be a simple fix for this, but I can't find it. I read a lot of long documents on the web, and I have always used the arrow keys to scroll down them. It's just quicker then the mouse. I'd click on the title bar of a page and it would be selected and I could scroll down. But all of a sudden just after restarting my computer clicking the title bar of a web page throws the text cursor to the start of the page so that I have to scroll that down to the end of the page to move the text along. How do I get it to stop doing that? I can't find any settings that should be doing it. I'm using Firefox if that helps any. I'm at a loss for such a basic thing.
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Old 01-19-2006, 06:01 AM   #2
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Does it happen on all sites?

Might consider-> Don't click on the Title Bar

Or-> Click in a Neutral spot on the page.
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Old 01-19-2006, 06:57 AM   #3
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Clicking on a blank spot on a site just throws the text cursor to the nearest text block. Like I said it's weird.

edit: I managed to find it. Somehow the "Allow text to be selected with the Keyboard" got selected in Firefox options. Had to have been my cat.

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