243718 - cursor disappears when visiting site with Flash animated cursor

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jacob D]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040515 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040515 Firefox/0.8.0+

When visiting a website with a full screen Flash animation that has an animated
Flash cursor in place of the standard cursor, the standard cursor will flash
rapidly and/or disappear in all other open Firefox windows, and in all Firefox
menus.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html
2. Open a new Firefox window, or click on any toolbar menu.


Actual Results:  
Cursor flashes rapidly when being moved, and disappears if left in one place for
more than a fraction of a second.

Expected Results:  
Cursor should display normally.

Comment 1

[Anders Pedersen]

Confirmed.

- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040525
Firefox/0.8.0+
- Macromedia Flash Player 7,0,19,0
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0

Confirming->NEW

This behaviour can be seen in all open tabs and windows, not just the current
tab/window

repro
1.open new window with http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html
2.open a tab with any page 
3.notice cursor behaviour anywhere in page/chrome
4.open another window
5.notice cursor behaviour anywhere in page/chrome

Comment 3

[Kyle Bieneman]

I also see this problem on Mozilla 1.7.3 (under WinXP).  Should I make a dupe of
this bug and assign it to Product: Mozilla Application Suite, or what?

Comment 4

[Paul Norman]

Attachment: Flash ad that demonstrates the problem

The URL in this bug doesn't generate the problem described for Mozilla/5.0
(Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050325
Firefox/1.0+ but this flash ad file does.

Comment 5

[ricardo.soaresdelima]

I found the same error! In any flash page the cursor is blinking, then if it ia left its desappears!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; pt-BR; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

Still a problem with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Shockwave Flash 9.0 r28

The Flash page itself is fine, but cursor vanishes/flickers on other tabs.

Comment 7

[therube]

Attachment: testcase from http://blog.wixi.com/2008/02/14/say-you-love-himher-with-wixi/

Comment 8

[therube]

Attachment: testcase mangled by Composer

Comment 9

[therube]

I'll guess that these are DUPs:
Bug 404280
Bug 436865

I do not see this bug in the attachment Comment #4.

I do see this with the subject, boohbah.com URL & the URLs in the "DUPs".

This continues ... with Flash 9.0 r124 ... and ...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 SeaMonkey/1.1.12

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080818002757 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008081305 GranParadiso/3.0.2pre

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080906062345 Minefield/3.1b1pre

Comment 10

[Drew Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100105 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100114 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

This also occurs on http://www.kongregate.com/games/ImpendingRiot/alice-is-dead-ep-2

Reproducible on 3.6 RC1 and Branch.

This bug persists across tabs and windows.

Comment 11

[therube]

This continues ... with Flash 10.3 r181 ... and ...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110511 Firefox/4.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110517 Firefox/6.0a1

Comment 12

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Still present in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0, Windows XP, Flash 11.7.700.169

Comment 13

[u597032]

Flash is no longer supported