I don't know exactly what's going on here but I think the bug here is that this accessibility feature is misdesigned and the X events it result in cause firefox to think it has lost mouse or keyboard focus.
Ian. -- "Highlight pointer when you press control" option breaks firefox cut/copy by keyboard. https://launchpad.net/bugs/38144 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
