624820 - cursor disappears over firefox windows.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Carol Stoneburner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Pointer disappears after about two seconds if hovering over any firefox window, independent of if it is in a field, page body, toolbar, etc, even if ff is not the active window. It reappears if moved.  It does not happen with other applications, even if FF is the application in focus.  If a field is selected the curor in the field box remains, but the pointer disappears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox
2.leave cursor over ff window
3. Pointer disappears until moved.
Actual Results:  
point disappears.

Expected Results:  
left pointer visible.

All incompatible addons are turned off. Using whitehart theme. 

about:buildconfig

Source

Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/0c159bd1d600
Build platform
target
i686-pc-mingw32

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
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Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-update-packaging --enable-jemalloc --enable-official-branding --enable-tests

Comment 1

[Alex Machi]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to do this but I was searching to see if a bug like this one had been reported.  I'd like to confirm I have also experienced the disappearing cursor issue but only under a particular set of circumstances, i.e. there must be numerous tabs open - somewhere between 5 and maybe 8 to 10 tabs.  I can't say whether any specific applications - flash, for instance - have to be running on any of those pages.
Sometimes I'll close an open tab (using Command + w) and the cursor suddenly disappears at exactly the same time that tab closes, if the cursor is over the Firefox window.  If I move the cursor all the way to the top, bottom or a side the cursor becomes visible again as soon as it is clear of the Firefox window.
Using FF 9.0.1 w/several add-ons, unfortunately, on Mac OS 10.6.8.  Contact me for more information if you like; [e-mail].

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this issue when using  a current version?

Comment 3

[Carol Stoneburner]

This is resolved.  Thanks for checking :-)