Cursor keeps on randlomly jumps around the page

[Marcus Anderson]

I frequently tab between the latest version of Chrome (on Win10, fully patched) and other applications.

If I click on a confluence wiki page, at a set point, I find that the cursor has randomly moved and I my typed text, is appearing elsewhere.

To the best of my knowledge, no-one else is editing the page.

I am reaching the stage where if this is not fixed, I am going to have to give up on Confluence, as it is that annopying and all too frequent.

Thanks for any help

Marcus

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Marcus Anderson 

Is it exclusive to Confluence and to the edit mode? The reason I'm asking is that I experienced smth similar a couple of years ago - any online editor, any text editor suffered from cursor moving places. It did not affect my normal browsing etc.

The culprit was... Magic Trackpad (or tragic macpad in this case). My mouse worked OK, as did the replacement Trackpad.

[Marcus Anderson]

Thank you for responding.  I have made no hardware changes.  Confluence has just started doing this and has been doing so for a few weeks.

It is purely in editor mode.  I alt-tab between apps and even double clicking on an edited Confluence page, doesnt work, as the cursor moves a second or two later.  To me, this suggests that a Java script or something similar is moving the cursor.

I have RSI and like to minimise mouse usage, as this causes me the most grief.

I expect to click in a page and to be able to type and not find that the cursor has moved and my typed text, is appearing at some seemingly random location.  It does not seem to be the last known cursor location for the page.