Comments on: Firefox Blinking Cursor Issue http://systembash.com/content/firefox-blinking-cursor-issue/ Technology and System Administration Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ralph Hyre http://systembash.com/content/firefox-blinking-cursor-issue/#comment-15019 Ralph Hyre Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:54:23 +0000 http://systembash.com/?p=164#comment-15019 Where was the ffox product manager when this was put in? >Alternatively, type â??about:configâ?? in the >URL area, then filter for â??caretâ??. Change >accessibility.browsewithcaret to â??falseâ??. This \'hidden feature\', which fails too many usability principles (I\'ll list 3 here): - Nothing obvious firefox help about this You\'d have to guess it\'s an accessibility feature. - State of this feature is invisible, nothing changes in the status bar - No menu shortcut to turn it off. Where was the ffox product manager when this was put in?
>Alternatively, type â??about:configâ?? in the >URL area, then filter for â??caretâ??. Change >accessibility.browsewithcaret to â??falseâ??.

This \’hidden feature\’, which fails too many usability principles (I\’ll list 3 here):
- Nothing obvious firefox help about this
You\’d have to guess it\’s an accessibility feature.
- State of this feature is invisible, nothing changes in the status bar

- No menu shortcut to turn it off.

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