Cursor move suddenly starts selecting everything; have to restart.

Hi,
My Macbook Pro, once or twice a day, a cursor move will suddenly start hilighting everything. Bringing a menu down, like to quit Firefox, the menu disappears before you can click "quit". So I manage to quit Firefox, and the cursor is drawing boxes on the desktop.
This can only be cured by restarting. What's going on?
Thank you.

Well, it looks like you accidentally invoke the function where you can drag&tap (don't exactly recall what it's called again). I've done such myself, and keep doing so.
It's pretty annoying, I've turned it off, but apparently you can't really turn it off. Seems something Apple should work on in another software update
Your quick fix is the only thing that works

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