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When I push down the arrow key in my keyboard, Firefox scrolls site to its bottom. How can I configure Firefox to scroll smoothly, so that I can see couple of new lines as I press the key? I have Firefox 25.0 and Ubuntu 13.10. I tried to reinstall Firefox and in preferences I chose smooth auto scrolling. It looks like there is a cursor in the WWW-site I'm watching and by pressing keys the cursor jump between different links.

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Does this only happen in Firefox, or elsewhere on your system also? –  Sajan Parikh Nov 13 '13 at 12:23
At least this does not happen in Chrome. –  noobie Nov 13 '13 at 12:26

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Caret Browsing is provided as a way to navigate through a web page by using only the keyboard.

You may have Caret Browsing turned on. You can press press F7 to toggle caret browsing on/off, and see if it works.

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Thanks! That was the solution. –  noobie Nov 13 '13 at 12:48
Glad that I could help :) –  Mitch Nov 13 '13 at 12:48

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