How to get precise Text Selection in FireFox

One of the most annoying feature of FireFox is it’s imprecise text selection. Most of the time when you want to select a portion of text, the adjacent unwanted text is also selected. This forces you to start the selection process all over and it is really cumbersome. To make things easier, I would suggest you to use ‘Word Pad or Notepad style caret(vertical blinking mouse cursor) in FireFox.

To enable ‘caret’ in FireFox you need to press“F7″ once and you will see a pop-up window informing you about the change. Once you press “F7″ , Browsing mode will set in and you will get a ‘caret’ for easy selection of text in FireFox. In this mode, you can select way in the conventional way by clicking and dragging with the mouse, by using “Shift”+ arrow keys, etc.

To disable ‘caret browsing‘, just press the “F7″ button once more and it will be disabled. Now you are back in the traditional FireFox mode.

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