Hi,
About 2 days ago Firefox started to do something strange, when I click
on a link (and then it opens a new tab) a blinking position mark (sorry,
I don't know how it is said in English but it is the line that appears
on any word processor) appears close to the link . That occurs with
links, images and even just text, I click on any part of the site and
that blinking mark appears on the line the mouse pointer stay.
Any idea on what's going on?

I use Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Win XP Pro SP2 (the 1.5.0.1 version run great
since it went public)

Guillermo González Díez wrote:

> Hi,
> About 2 days ago Firefox started to do something strange, when I click
> on a link (and then it opens a new tab) a blinking position mark (sorry,
> I don't know how it is said in English but it is the line that appears
> on any word processor) appears close to the link . That occurs with
> links, images and even just text, I click on any part of the site and
> that blinking mark appears on the line the mouse pointer stay.
> Any idea on what's going on?
>
> I use Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Win XP Pro SP2 (the 1.5.0.1 version run great
> since it went public)

Caret Browsing, I just learned about it yesterday.
F7 turns it on & off.

Sparkle wrote:

> Guillermo González Díez wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>About 2 days ago Firefox started to do something strange, when I click
>>on a link (and then it opens a new tab) a blinking position mark (sorry,
>>I don't know how it is said in English but it is the line that appears
>>on any word processor) appears close to the link . That occurs with
>>links, images and even just text, I click on any part of the site and
>>that blinking mark appears on the line the mouse pointer stay.
>>Any idea on what's going on?
>>
>>I use Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Win XP Pro SP2 (the 1.5.0.1 version run great
>>since it went public)
>
>
> Caret Browsing, I just learned about it yesterday.
> F7 turns it on & off.
Its the "Find in this Page" option, under Edit. In other programs its
called "Find Text as you type" or "Find Links as you type" or "Find in
this Message"

gwtc escribió:
> Sparkle wrote:
>
>> Guillermo González Díez wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> About 2 days ago Firefox started to do something strange, when I
>>> click on a link (and then it opens a new tab) a blinking position
>>> mark (sorry, I don't know how it is said in English but it is the
>>> line that appears on any word processor) appears close to the link .
>>> That occurs with links, images and even just text, I click on any
>>> part of the site and that blinking mark appears on the line the mouse
>>> pointer stay.
>>> Any idea on what's going on?
>>>
>>> I use Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Win XP Pro SP2 (the 1.5.0.1 version run
>>> great since it went public)
>>
>>
>> Caret Browsing, I just learned about it yesterday.
>> F7 turns it on & off.
> Its the "Find in this Page" option, under Edit. In other programs its
> called "Find Text as you type" or "Find Links as you type" or "Find in
> this Message"

Ok, thank you guys, F7 solved the problem. When I press F7 now a warning
message pop-ups but I don't remember that message appearing when the
problem first occurred.

And Ctrl+F ('Find in this page' under 'Edit') doesn't interfere with F7,
I mean, I can still find text as I type independently F7 is on or off.

Thanks a lot.