How to Fix Weird Blinking Bar in Firefox

What are you, blinky thing?

Recently I’ve noticed a blinking cursor popping up all over the place on Firefox. It’s called a caret. Pronounced like carrot, but with less fiber. (Hilarious, I know!) Normally it should only appear while typing something in an input area, but now it was popping up in paragraphs, next to images, and it was blinking.

At first I thought the recent Firefox update caused it – my family’s “Media PC” also had it. But I figured it had to be something on my computer because my brother’s Firefox of the same version didn’t have the weird blinking cursor everywhere.

I’ve figured out how to fix it : Just press F7. This turns caret browsing on and off. The caret browsing is what’s causing it to pop up everywhere you click.

Crisis averted.

That’s how Noemi Knows it. (I’m still working on the catch phrase …)