1313912 - touchscreen on Windows: there's a trail that follows your finger around the screen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Will]

using a Surface Pro 4 tablet, when scrolling or just dragging your finger across the screen in Firefox, there's a trail that follows your finger around. It's distracting and weird. Can anyone give a reason or explain why there should be a trail behind your finger? I don't think any other browser does this

Comment 1

[Will]

someone just contacted me about this and it turns out this is a Windows behaviour that has nothing to do with Firefox. so this is not a bug and can be deleted. my apologies

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Resolving per comment #1. :-)

Comment 3

[Will]

I think this should be reopened because I forgot to test this in Internet Explorer when I filed this, I just tried it now and in Internet Explorer, this annoying trail is not present. I think that is significant because, although the trail isn't present in Edge either, Internet Explorer is of course a win32 app, so that must mean this annoying trail is not 'mandatory', surely there is a way to get rid of it?

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Will from comment #3)
> I think this should be reopened because I forgot to test this in Internet
> Explorer when I filed this, I just tried it now and in Internet Explorer,
> this annoying trail is not present. I think that is significant because,
> although the trail isn't present in Edge either, Internet Explorer is of
> course a win32 app, so that must mean this annoying trail is not
> 'mandatory', surely there is a way to get rid of it?

I see the same trail trying to move an IE window with touch, on a current version of Windows 10. I don't see it in the content area. :kats, sorry for picking on you in several bugs, but is there something we can/should do to disable this mousetrail in certain circumstances?

Comment 5

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

I never noticed that the trail doesn't appear in IE/Edge. I'm not really sure how they turn it off - maybe they have access to an internal API? I looked on MSDN and didn't see any exposed API that allows this, but maybe I missed it. However, there is a user-facing option in the control panel to turn this off. Control Panel -> Pen and Touch -> Touch -> "Show visual feedback when touching the screen".

Comment 6

[Will]

Can someone please remove the "invalid" label because this is still quite annoying and distracting

Comment 7

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

(In reply to Will from comment #6)
> this is still quite annoying and distracting

Did you disable the OS-level option like Kats suggested?

(In reply to Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail]) from comment #5)
> there is a user-facing option in the control panel to
> turn this off. Control Panel -> Pen and Touch -> Touch -> "Show visual
> feedback when touching the screen".