Firefox is creating a blinking text cursor when I click on text in a webpage. How do I make it stop?

This problem began a few days ago, apropos of nothing, and has carried over from 8 to 9. While it hasn't compromised Firefox in any way that I can see, it's distracting.

You may have switched on caret browsing.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/accessibility.browsewithcaret
You can press press F7 (on Mac: fn + F7) to toggle caret browsing on/off.
*Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Accessibility: [ ] "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Scrolling_with_arrow_keys_no_longer_works
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility_features_of_Firefox

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