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Well, Firefox being my favourite browser, for last couple of days it is behaving strangely while scrolling. What happens is instead of the down arrow key moving the screen a line or two, and the Page Down is dominately moving down a screen, so that it jumps to the end of a blog.
Why is this happening ? Any reasons....
How do I fix it ?
The behaviour you describe seems to be the issue of ctrl-pagedown key. Maybe your computer has a stuck ctrl key. Hit the ctrl key a few times to see if it unsticks...
Here is the solution for your problem:
- Under Options >> Select the Advanced tab >> Accessibility Options will appear.
- Under Accessibility Options >> one choice says "Allow text to be selected with the keyboard" >> That option would be checked.
- You unchecked it and the problem will be solved.
- Now you can use your spacebar to scroll down web pages.
The browser scrolling problem is caused by the so-called Caret Browsing.
It is turned on (and off) by pressing F7.
However, reinstalling Firefox (or updating to a new version) does not change your settings, and the effect will not go away.
Just press F7.