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How do I get rid of this scrolling problem?

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When I'm browsing e.g. a gallery on Facebook or similar pages - scrolling swipes the gallery to the next photo instead of scrolling the page. On Soundcloud it changes the time on the player. How do I fix this?

When I'm browsing e.g. a gallery on Facebook or similar pages - scrolling swipes the gallery to the next photo instead of scrolling the page. On Soundcloud it changes the time on the player. How do I fix this?

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You may have switched on caret browsing.

You can toggle caret browsing on/off by pressing F7 (Mac: fn + F7).

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"

Note that this is an accessibility feature of Firefox.

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I can scroll with my arrow keys. I've tried changing the caret browsing settings, but this "problem" is still happening. It's quite annoying for me, as I'm using touchpad and I am used to scroll with two fingers instead of using the scroll bar. How do I return to the previous settings?