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Anyone know how to scroll up and down a page in Firefox?

I'm using a laptop keyboard; fn key and page up or down doesn't work (although it works in Safari).

Page Down / Page Up work on a PC... Have you set up any sort of non-standard keyboard mapping on your Mac?

I just tried a fullsize external keyboard (with its own page up down keys) and page up/down doesn't work in Firefox.

Can anyone confirm that it's meant to?

The arrow buttons move a cursor down lines of text rather than scrolling ie the cursor has to get to the bottom of the page before the page starts moving (and the cursor becomes a box around links that can be opened with the return key).

Is this something to do with how I've got Firefox set, or is it always like that?

Sorry, kea, I don't have a Mac with Firefox at the moment.

On the PC, a straight page up/down (i.e. without any "modifier" keys) does the trick. If that doesn't work on your Mac it's either a bug (report it!) or you've reprogrammed your keyboard in some way. I'm afraid I can';t help beyond that... Have you tried the Mozilla forums?

Do your arrow keys work in Firefox as I described, moving a cursor rather than scrolling?

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I doubt it's my keyboard as the page up down work ok in other applications.

Nope, they scroll, unless the cursor is inside a text box.

It's Firefox's "caret browsing" feature - you can turn it off and on using the "F7" key. When caret browsing is on, the page up and page down keys will move the cursor up or down a screen, similar to a word processor. I think there's a bug in the Mac version of firefox that aggrevates it, so just turn it off. I don't know if it actually ever needs to be on, maybe for things like WYSIWYG html editing it is, but I've never had to turn it on.

Not sure if this is the right bug, but it's the one I knew about from the pre-Firefox days:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202157

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"A colleague needed an Apple keyboard. I know for the iMac, the Fkeys do not work. They come up with an OS configured script.

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"I have pg-up pg-dwn keys. The most recent version of firefox 7.2 ?

Can not even boot the system without keyboard. "

Thanks d'El, that did the trick

Firefox Help programme has no returns on 'scroll', 'cursor', 'page up', or 'caret'
I don't know if it's just me, but I find that alot of 'Help' programmes are as unhelpful as that.

My mac's dictionary says the word 'caret' (meaning a mark placed below the line to indicate a proposed insertion in a printed or written text) is from the Latin for 'is lacking'