I’m an avid fan of the Firefox browser and use it on a daily basis, unless a particular site requires the use of IE. Firefox 2.0 was great – I had cool add-on extensions to help me ease my browsing experience such as Tab Mix, which is great for enhanced tab personalization, email notifier, weather, etc. In the beginning, I had this problem with my cursor disappearing. This meant that everytime I typed something in a text field, every so often, the cursor moved somewhere else. Therefore, I would have to click in the text field again to continue typing. Image writing this blog entry with this problem. So far, I’ve had about five disappearance thus far.

I believe the problem was resolved through updates.

I have recently upgraded to Firefox 3.0 and have found the problem to have risen from the dead. This is definitely one annoying nuisance. No matter how much an application has improved, containing a defect from a previous release is not acceptable.

I have lost the cursor six more times. The total of cursor disappearance for typing this much text in a text field came out to be 11 times.

I thought this feature would solve the problem, Caret Browsing – something to do with selecting text with the keyboard. Press F7 to get this pop-up and turn off the Caret Browsing. At least it has worked on my Google toolbar…for now.

I need to find a fix for this cursor disappearing problem. I read that it’s not just Firefox, it’s the whole Mozilla runtime.