WHY does my cursor decide on its own to go sit somewhere OTHER than where I just got finished typing? I see it in Yahoo mail, and Facebook. It STINKS.

I type a lot of stuff, but I'm a one-fingered typist. I very often look up to proof-read what I just entered on my laptop screen, and I see it's been jumbled, with words cut-up and cut-off, but the word and the sentence have been inserted (as if cut-and-pasted) u a discussion board I like to visit and contribute to. (It's called: Mutual Fund Observer.)p further, where they don't belong. And I did not type that stuff in that particular spot!
This happens in Yahoo mail, in Facebook, and also on
DING! It JUST NOW HAPPENED AGAIN. Can you see what I mean? This is enough to make someone angry in a big way. It STINKS. I hope you can find a "fix" for this!
Now let me back up and finish this message AS INTENDED!
I type a lot of stuff, but I'm a one-fingered typist. I very often look up to proof-read what I just entered on my laptop screen, and I see it's been jumbled, with words cut-up and cut-off, but the word and the sentence have been inserted (as if cut-and-pasted) up further, where they don't belong. And I did not type that stuff in that particular spot! This happens in Yahoo mail, in Facebook, and also on a discussion board I like to visit and contribute to. (It's called: "Mutual Fund Observer.")
It is as if the mouse or the laptop has decided on its own to go and relocate the cursor where it feels like putting it. This is terribly frustrating. It makes me want to scream.
Thank you.

Hi,
You can consider the [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems Reset Firefox] feature via '''Help''' ('''Alt''' + '''H''') > '''Troubleshooting Information'''. If it is okay, you can then install the Mozilla Archive Format add-on.
If you have security software installed you can try to delete all existing entries for Firefox and its sub processes in the different configuration modules and try to fully trust/allow Firefox afresh. Even after network access is completed, Firefox would still need unlimited access to its disk cache/memory as well as its files. Please see [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firewalls this].
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