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Re: Firefox, about:cofig: "Browse with caret" required for accessibility?

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From: Mallory
Date: Jul 19, 2018 3:42AM

Why not let users turn it on and off as needed with f7? People who use caret nav experience right off the bat that it's generally not on by default. People who need it for stuff like text selection have to learn somewhere which browsers can even do it and how to turn it on.

I only turn it on when I want to do specific things because otherwise, at least on this machine (Ubuntu on a Thinkpad) it messes with page scrolling.

cheers,
Mallory

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, at 11:00 PM, glen walker wrote:
> I agree with Patrick. Additionally, anytime you turn on or off some
> feature that is useful for one person but problematic for another, you get
> into a lose-lose situation. It's best left for the user to decide if they
> want that feature on or off.
>
> Glen
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