663633 - the cursor blink on buttons and the non editable text as well

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[devbiapps]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 Beta

the cursor blinks on button and non editable text making a wrong impression.one has to click on the edit text box to confirm where cursor is.This is on any site which asks for login info 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Maybe you're in caret browsing mode. You can turn it off using (fn+)F7.

Comment 3

[Kevin Pellet (Ilphrin)]

Hi,

There is no other occurrence of this bug and it does not seems to be reproducible, I think this bug can be marked as closed

Comment 4

[david.beers]

This happens for me on 67.0b9; Build ID: 20190408123043; User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0.

I believe this started happening for me when Firefox automatically updated to 67.0b7. Happens on both my desktop and laptop, both running Windows 1809.

Comment 5

[david.beers]

(In reply to david.beers from comment #4)

This happens for me on 67.0b9; Build ID: 20190408123043; User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0.

I believe this started happening for me when Firefox automatically updated to 67.0b7. Happens on both my desktop and laptop, both running Windows 1809.

I was stupidly in Caret Browsing mode. I tried that by pressing Fn+F7, but my laptop doesn't have a function on F7, so I just needed to press F7. Thank you!

Comment 6

[tokar90]

Firefox Developer Edition: 76.0b8 (64-bit) Windows NT 10.0.

It reproduce after install extensions ad blockers.
I made few tests with:

AdBlocker Ultimate by AdAvoid
Adblock Plus by Adblock Plus
uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill

Comment 8

[imre_lovasz]

Hi,
It's still happening, even in Troubleshooting mode (writing this comment in Troubleshooting mode).
The cursor's blinking in the weirdest places.
I'm in Big Sur now, but it was the same on Catalina.
Firefox: 89.0.2 (64-bit)
Big Sur: 11.4 (20F71)

Comment 9

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it, and I will be identifying the people who broke it, like Asif Youssuff, personally, until it is identified as the bug that it is.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.

Comment 12

[OliviyaKachin]

This also started happening to me when Firefox automatically upgraded to 67.0b7.

Comment 17

[imre_lovasz]

(In reply to OliviyaKachin from comment #12)

This also started happening to me when Firefox automatically upgraded to 67.0b7.

Yep, it's happening again.
The cursor sometimes visible and blinking, even when watching online videos in full screen.
Firefox v110.0/64 bit

Comment 18

[loxia_01]

Had the same issue on my Beta v114 installation. But turned out I had activated caret browsing mode (Alt Gr + F7) as stated in comment #2. Did not know that the mode persisted after restart.

Comment 34

[circl.lastname]

Anybody experiencing this, press F7 and click No to make sure you are not in Caret mode.

And as to the above comment, sorry, ChatGPT cannot help with bug reports.