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Caret Browsing for Chrome

My young children have been fascinated by computers, and have a tendency to mash the keyboard. While this hasn't caused too many problems, it did lead to a strange case where the home, end, and arrow keys didn't work as usual in the Chrome browser. That is, instead of the down arrow key scrolling the page down, it would instead go to the next link on the page. Similarly, the end key wouldn't go to the bottom of the page, but would instead move the cursor to the end of the current line. After about an hour debugging, it turns out that this is a feature in Chrome known as Caret mode. It's an accessibility feature to help people navigate. To turn it on or off, hit F7.