Cursor behaves weirdly in the composer - it disappears as I move it up/down

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Yeah, Firefox bug.

Seen it on Linux, have not noticed it on Windows though.

See:

Issue writing messages or topics in Firefox

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Arrow keys in Firefox

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See: 226301 - Cursor disappears sporadically