My cursor flits away to another part of the screen while I am using it.

When moving the cursor around the screen with the mouse, often the cursor will just flit away to another part of the screen and I have to move the mouse around in a circle to find it an drag it back to where I was using it. Any ideas what is causing this?

I believe this has been attributed to some shift in the state of your wifi connection. It usually happens for me when something is being downloaded, or a download finishes. Sometimes the wifi "fan" in the menu bar is changing from 3 to 4 bars, or 4 to 3. Often I don't know what it is changing, but the cursor just jumps.
I searched for this problem (months ago) and someone on the forum said it was the wifi doing it. Turn off the wifi and connect by ethernet and see if it continues. With the layout of my office, I'm not able to try that, so I just put up with it. Seems it doesn't do it as often anymore, but it does continue.
Hope this is helpful. Joel.

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This does not happen on my laptop computer or on any other program my work computer runs.

That problem can be caused by the Yahoo! Toolbar or the Babylon extension that extents too much downwards and covers the top part of the browser window and thus makes links and buttons in that part of the screen not clickable.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode

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ok but the question is ,,,,,is my warranty working if i changed the broken screen from another fixing store "not apple " ...the screen looks like the old one but the upper part is not working ,,,and the fixer"not from apple" didnt know whats the problem with the new screen, i bought my iphone less than half year ago ,and if my warranty is still working where is the apple store located in Jordan ?

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