325558 - Mouse cursor disappears if hidden by Flash against the side of the window

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P2)

Description

[pjs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060201 Camino/1.0b2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060201 Camino/1.0b2+

the pointer disappears, and not just within the browser, but outside of it...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I see the same thing happen on the bottom bird, too, but as soon as I mouse out of the Flash animation there in the sidebar, the cursor comes back. Even if I leave the cursor there and cmd-tab into another app, the cursor comes back immediately.

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Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Does this happen in Firefox 1.5.0.1 or Safari?

Comment 3

[pjs]

dunno about firefox, but it doesnt happen w/ safari.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

In Fx, I can generally (but not always) get the cursor back if I mouse out of the window to the top or the left of the plugin, and alwsys get it back if I mouse out to the bottom or to the right, back over the text.

In Cm, the only sure way to get it back is to mouse out over the text; sometimes I can get it back by mousing out over the bottom of the plugin, but never via the top or the left sides.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is a dup, but I can't find the original.

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

Simon, are you thinking of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260617#c12 ?

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Yes. Not sure why bug 260617 was marked as WFM

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I think this is one of the more serious bugs, and begs for a pre 2.0 designation.

Comment 9

[Stuart Morgan]

*** Bug 359376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Stuart Morgan]

Works in FF2, not in trunk Firefox; -> Cocoa widget.

Comment 11

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Is this a particular symptom of bug 379413, or really a separate bug?

Per comment 10, this is a regression for Firefox.

Comment 12

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

I found this bug today while visiting the following page under OS X:
http://arthurmebius.com/

It's really annoying that the mouse pointer is hidden and you have to Cmd+Tab out of Firefox to get the mouse cursor back. This happens with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030804 Minefield/3.0b5pre ID:2008030804.

Asking for blocking1.9 to hopefully get rid of this regression from switching to Cocoa.

Comment 14

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

As additional note you also get back the cursor when leaving the website over the tabbar and Bookmarks Toolbar. 

Comment 15

[Josh Aas]

Attachment: fix v1.0

Comment 16

[Stuart Morgan]

Comment on attachment 314423 [details] [diff] [review]
fix v1.0

r=smorgan

Comment 17

[Josh Aas]

Comment on attachment 314423 [details] [diff] [review]
fix v1.0

This is a pretty safe bug fix for something that can be pretty frustrating for users. I recommend taking this for RC1.

Comment 18

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Comment on attachment 314423 [details] [diff] [review]
fix v1.0

a1.9=beltzner

Comment 19

[Josh Aas]

landed on trunk

Comment 20

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Verified with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko Minefield/3.0pre ID:2008040922

Comment 21

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This caused bug 496601, because plug-ins are NOT the only widgets we have around.  I'm not sure why this was considered "safe" exactly...  I'm also not sure why the patch is resetting the cursor, not just unhiding it.

How did carbon widgets handle this situation?  They didn't have this bug, or bug 496601.