Closed Bug 1313912 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

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

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Win32
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: billdillensrevenge, Unassigned)

Details

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
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
Component: General → Widget: Win32
Product: Firefox → Core
Resolving per comment #1. :-)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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?
(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?
Flags: needinfo?(bugmail)
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".
Flags: needinfo?(bugmail)
Can someone please remove the "invalid" label because this is still quite annoying and distracting
(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:kats@mozilla.com) 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".
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