1046740 - Using the eyedropper tool on a window will make the cursor invisible on a different window

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Flaviu Cos]

Reproducible on the latest Nightly (BuildID: 20140731030206): 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Open new window;
3. Open Eyedropper tool from the Developer submenu;
4. Try to use the Eyedropper tool on the other opened window.

Expected results:
Either the mouse cursor or the Eyedropper tool is visible on the second window.

Actual results:
The mouse cursor is not visible while moving it on the second opened window.

Notes:
1. This issue is not a regression: it reproduces since the Eyedropper feature has landed in bug 939040.

Comment 1

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

I can reproduce this issue on my machine.
I am wondering if this is feature limitation or a bug.

Honza