If your Firefox give no respond when you click the Page Up, Page Down, Home or End button, you might have activated caret browsing. You might also notice that there will be a blinking text cursor when you click on a passage or text on a website.
You might have accidentally activated the caret browsing without noticing it and started scolding when those buttons won’t work.
To solve the problem, just simply press on the F7 key.
Tags: caret browsing, Mozilla, Web Browser
20 Jan 09
7:46 am
WOW.. thanks, i couldn’t figure out what i had done. lol
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Vincent replied:
January 20th, 2009
No problem, glad that it helped.
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07 Feb 09
1:44 am
yeah I did it too by accident and it was TOTALLY buggin. thanks.
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07 Mar 09
11:25 am
Good Hint.
Any ideas how to get back the menu bar?
That is the “File Edit View … ” line.
Curious thing is that when I open a new window I do get the menu back but not in the current window.
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08 Jun 09
8:48 am
Thanks! I had figured some sites were Firefox Hostile, but in checking against some other broswers, the pgup pgdn keys did work. So, In googling, your post came up to the top.
I give you Thanks!
(you too google guys.)
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27 Jun 09
9:34 pm
Thank you! I hated not being able to use those keys!
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16 Jul 09
10:36 am
I was having the same problem….I thought it was a software bug. Thanks. I’m glad to have my scrolling back again without having to go to the touchpad ang go all the way over to the tiny down arrow on the scroll bar. I rate this as Very Helpful.
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15 Aug 09
4:44 am
Cool, thanks, this was driving me nuts!
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23 Sep 09
3:41 am
god bless you sir.
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04 Oct 09
10:55 pm
I have had this problem for about 2/3 months – just found this solution AFTER ihad unistalled Firefox and then re-installed it LOL!
THANK YOOOOOOOU!!!!
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16 Oct 09
8:11 am
Thank you. Why didn’t I google tat sooner. Duh. Seriously though, Thank you.
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01 Nov 09
6:12 pm
Thank you a lot! It really helped!
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12 Nov 09
1:51 am
what a relief…..
thanks for the info
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12 Feb 10
10:04 am
I love you, thanks.
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26 Feb 10
9:42 am
thanks! That really made my day
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05 Apr 10
4:13 am
i love you too thanks
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06 Apr 10
11:51 pm
IT’S FIXED!
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11 Apr 10
3:53 am
gracias lo estaba buscando desde hase mucho… gracias de nuevo
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20 Apr 10
3:40 am
Doesn’t work. I turn on/off caret = no difference at all.
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jnell replied:
March 17th, 2012
@Matay, Didn’t work for me either…and it’s really making me angry!
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24 Apr 10
1:36 am
Yay I LOVE YOU
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09 May 10
9:14 am
OMG! SO THATS y!
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24 May 10
2:03 am
Thanks a lot. My gratitude is ineffable
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11 Jun 10
3:58 am
THAAAAAAANKS A LOT.
like it was said before, My gratitude is ineffable!
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14 Jun 10
2:29 am
YAY! The solution that keeps on giving. Thank you!
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12 Jul 10
10:10 pm
Thanks so much, been so annoying these silly buttons weren’t working, I now remember pressing all the ‘F’ buttons a few weeks ago when incredibly bored!!!
I love you too now x
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19 Jul 10
12:58 am
Thank you SO much! My cat (Velcro) took a nap on my keyboard, and when I returned, these buttons weren’t working, and neither was ‘Find’. This fixed both problems, thank you!
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11 Aug 10
8:12 am
Thanks! I was ready to throw it out the window.
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16 Aug 10
8:55 am
YAYAYAYAYAYAY THANK YOU SO EFFING MUCH THAT WAS DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!
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14 Sep 10
12:49 am
OMG Thank You…I was losing my mind trying to figure out what was wrong….One simple key thank you.
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12 Oct 10
5:28 am
Thank you so much!!!! So simple and easy,but sooooo helpful,when you didn’t know! =)
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28 Oct 10
3:36 am
Karma +1 for you sir!
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15 Nov 10
12:08 am
son of a bitch! THANK YOU, that has been bugging the HELL out of me and I couldn’t figure out what started it in the first place
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24 Nov 10
10:41 pm
absolute legend!!! THANKING U HEAPZZZ!!! awesome stuff.. it only eitha took me straite to top of page or to bottom. had no idea y it wsnt workn outa nowhere.
once again, many thanks 2 u!
VERY helpful/useful into! =)
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27 Nov 10
5:29 am
Kudos to you kind sir. My day just gained 2 happy points.
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18 Dec 10
9:50 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU….what a pain this has been for SO long and the fix was this easy. You are a lifesaver!
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21 Dec 10
11:07 pm
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F7 *Click*
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Page Dn *Click*
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AWESOME!!!!!!
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24 Dec 10
8:49 am
cat jumped on the keyboard… suddenly couldn’t browse…. THANK YOU!!!!!
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22 Jan 11
2:17 pm
holy cow it worked. some other guy was telling you to write a script or some crap. short and simple, much thanks
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04 Feb 11
12:32 am
that’s AWESOME thank you !
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04 Feb 11
10:46 am
oh my god this has been driving me crazy. not just the page up/down not working, but that goddammed blinking cursor on webpages.
thanks so much!
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04 Feb 11
10:48 am
someone should survey how often these problems are caused by keyboard cats.
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06 Feb 11
9:32 am
Thanks almost got a new keyboard!
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16 Mar 11
9:28 am
Dude,
Big Thanks
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28 Mar 11
12:50 pm
Thanks for the fix. I couldn’t figure out what had happened and this was driving me crazy.
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27 Apr 11
1:57 pm
Thanks for that info. That’s been bugging me for a while, comes and goes and never payed much attention to it lately
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06 May 11
1:39 pm
Thanks your the greatest been looking for a fix for this for quite a while now
Thanks again
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02 Jun 11
1:47 am
Wow ! 18+ months without these buttons, only a F7 to do ! What newbie I am ! Thanks a lot !
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15 Jul 11
5:05 am
Thanks!!
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13 Aug 11
5:23 pm
Hmm.
I just loaded a new version of Flash this morning, now even the down arrow does not work, F7 or no F7.
If I can’t fix it I will have to move to Chrome os Safari.
It has only been hapening since the upgrade which made the mail navigation bar stay at the top of the screen.
Tim.
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08 Oct 11
2:12 pm
hey plz tell me …
i have a problem of pageup page down button as i upgrade mozilla firefox to 8.0
its not working properly..
arrow keys up n down also working not correctly..
plz reply….
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16 Oct 11
6:52 pm
thanks.
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17 Dec 11
7:05 am
Jeeez – thanks man, awesome.
Most helpful site on this topic in the net.
Kind regards from germany!
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01 Jan 12
4:43 am
Oh Wow! Thank-you SO MUCH!! Have had this problem for months now and it’s been driving me crazy. Happy 2012
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07 Jan 12
8:10 am
Google search threw up this page and I’m very grateful, thx. Problem solved!
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14 Jan 12
7:42 am
Thanks so much! My kids were messing with my laptop and I could not figure out why those keys weren’t working.
All better now!
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05 Feb 12
12:17 pm
OMG! This has been bugging me for 3 weeks! I finally googled it and the first result was yours, and was correct!! Thank you so much for making my week! :p
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18 Feb 12
2:48 pm
Hello my friends i had same problem my Mozilla Firefox stop working for the last week i updated Firefox 10 i search web found this one you have to upgrade to Aurora 12 thot i installed the browser i lost everything, it loaded all same stuff is favorites from Mozilla Firefox i save, that i had load 2 pages i save and was back to normal works great. Just go here this fixes ever thing for you.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownl [...] -5787.html
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20 Feb 12
1:11 pm
Thanks for providing the resolution. I have had this problem for the last few weeks, and I had thought that an auto update to the latest version of Firefox caused this. I even looked into Mozilla’s List of Known Issues and almost started to report this bug.
Good thing I googled my page up/down problem and this was the first link.
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20 Feb 12
2:44 pm
Oh man thank you very much!!!!
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14 Mar 12
2:58 am
Thanks. Up and Down arrows were behaving like Home and End keys, and driving me nuts. The F7 key was the answer. Now I’ll have to remember 7 and 11. F7 to get in and out of caret browsing and F11 to get in and out of full screen mode (another black hole I fell into recently)
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04 Apr 12
12:46 am
Thanks!
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02 May 12
7:17 pm
Thank you!
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24 May 12
7:18 am
Thank you! My kids love playing on my computer, so they must have done this while I was out of the room…. I thought something was wrong with the latest edition of FF… I can breathe again now.
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02 Jun 12
8:27 pm
THANK YOU!! This has been making me crazy.
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28 Dec 12
5:08 pm
Great thanks. I can quickly get rid of the confusions. Probably its my kid who turned this on
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