349003 - Request: Hide mouse cursor while using the keyboard to scroll or type

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Reed Hedges]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1)

When using the keyboard (and maybe the mouse wheel too) to scroll a page, or when entering text in a text field (and perhaps other times as well), it would be helpful if Firefox hid the mouse cursor so it's not in the way. As soon as you move the mouse, it can come back.  For a comparison, I think Safari might do this.

Thanks

(Sorry if this is a duplicate, I expected to find a similar request in bugzilla but nothing was found for "hide cursor scroll" in all Firefox components, OPEN or CLOSED...)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Benjamin Higgins]

if this is feature is implemented, please make it configurable and optional

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

This issue has been addressed on the current version of Firefox. Marking as resolved.