in FireFox, how come I have a gigantic cursor when I click on the web page – this just recently started – why?

i have the web developers tools installed, and I do web development as a job. I almost feel stupid asking this, but seriously, I cannot figure out why I all of a sudden I get this cursor blinking on the page. It is really annoying. Is this some sort of preference somewhere?

Because your are dumb?

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