Frequently, when I click a text box to enter text, Firefox will display multiple vertical text cursors.

This problem began with the recent update to Firefox 4. It happens most regularly in the Google search box but can also happen in any text box within Firefox. Usually I highlight the text box to enter text and I will see the normal text cursor (blinking vertical line) as well as one or two additional non-blinking vertical lines positioned after the blinking one. I can enter text and all visible (blinking or not) cursors move to the right. When I delete a line of text it often leaves a string of solid vertical lines.
I never had this problem in version of Firefox prior to 4.0 and upgrading to 5.0 did not fix it. It got so annoying that I started using a different browser, which I would rather not do because I like Firefox. I have spent a number of hours trying to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it with no luck. Any help resolving this issue would be much appreciated.

I deleted cookies and cleared cache and (so far) problem appears to be solved thank-you.

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