Open Bug 1244543 Opened 8 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Do not allow any site to disable the mouse cursor

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Version:
43 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: spamscud2003, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

Details

(Whiteboard: dom-triaged) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20160122190402

Steps to reproduce:

Onmouseover a flash application, or html5 "player" on Youtube.


Actual results:

The mouse becomes hidden.


Expected results:

The mouse should NEVER become hidden. I want an option to disable this "feature", which I consider a bug.
This is a standard option in Chrome, btw.
Component: Untriaged → Event Handling
Product: Firefox → Core
Martin, something that should be on your radar (I don't know)?
Flags: needinfo?(mbest)
Whiteboard: dom-triaged
I'm not sure I understand the use case here perfectly but...

Is it that the user is Onmouseover event and it's triggering mouse lock without asking the users permission.  This seems like a bug rather then the intended functionality.  My expectation would be that if a site tries this, it would provide the user with a prompt to request permission.  I recommend we talk to Jet about this, he lead the recent changes to Fullscreen and would be able to give us some more insight.
Flags: needinfo?(mbest) → needinfo?(bugs)
I have never been able to reproduce the reported bug on YouTube. Is this still an issue?
Flags: needinfo?(bugs) → needinfo?(spamscud2003)
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
Severity: normal → S3
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