596581 - Preference to disable cursor (mouse pointer) shape manipulation

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100908 Iceweasel/3.5.12 (like Firefox/3.5.12)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100908 Iceweasel/3.5.12 (like Firefox/3.5.12)

Firefox should have a preference to disable cursor (mouse pointer) shape manipulation.

Some web sites set "cursor: none" on large areas. This is annoying and makes text selection more difficult.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. n/a



This was also requested in bug 346690.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Maybe the pref only needs to ignore 'cursor:none' and 'cursor:url()' ?
I think those two are the only ones that can make the mouse pointer invisible.

Comment 2

[/\/\arcio Galli]

The ability to force mouse and/or to disable it, via pref, could be interesting for kiosk/TV/dashboard apps.

Comment 3

[Gyorgy Kortvelyessy]

With the add-on CodeInjector (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/codeinjector/) you can solve this problem.
I believe the non-security related issues which belong to the webpage itself should not be handled/solved by any browser app. The webpage therefore its creators are responsible for it.