Jumpy cursor/screen - everything the pointer passes over reacts

Using my Magic Mouse, the cursor is just jumping all over the place. Everything the pointer passes over opens or reacts - without clicking on any of it.
When I turned my mouse off the trackpad was barely responsive. Then I turned my mouse back on and in the control panel clicked on "ignore trackpad when mouse or external trackpad is connected", and it seems to be working fine.
Is there something wrong with my trackpad? If so - is there a fix I can do? It is clean, and not that it matters, but I almost NEVER use it!

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]
If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.
You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the ''Safe mode'' start window.
You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (on Mac: "Firefox > Quit")

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