Open Bug 596581 Opened 10 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Preference to disable cursor (mouse pointer) shape manipulation

Categories

(Firefox :: Preferences, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Preferences
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100908 Iceweasel/3.5.12 (like Firefox/3.5.12)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100908 Iceweasel/3.5.12 (like Firefox/3.5.12)

Firefox should have a preference to disable cursor (mouse pointer) shape manipulation.

Some web sites set "cursor: none" on large areas. This is annoying and makes text selection more difficult.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. n/a



This was also requested in bug 346690.
Maybe the pref only needs to ignore 'cursor:none' and 'cursor:url()' ?
I think those two are the only ones that can make the mouse pointer invisible.
The ability to force mouse and/or to disable it, via pref, could be interesting for kiosk/TV/dashboard apps.
Blocks: 760442
With the add-on CodeInjector (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/codeinjector/) you can solve this problem.
I believe the non-security related issues which belong to the webpage itself should not be handled/solved by any browser app. The webpage therefore its creators are responsible for it.
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