improper mouse hover behavior with links
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Expired
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Medium
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X.Org X server |
Fix Released
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Medium
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
firefox-3.1 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.1
Using Firefox 3.1 on Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, if I move the mouse over a link, the hover function does not work properly. If the mouse is stopped over a link, it remains as the standard cursor. If it is moving, then it rapidly alternates between the standard cursor and the link select cursor. This only happens if at some point I have moused over one of the buttons in the Firefox chrome. I have tried launching Firefox with the -safe-mode switch, but this does not affect the problem.
This problem affects functionality because some websites use menus that appear when a link is moused over, and this problem keeps the menu from staying on the screen.
[Testcase]
open firefox, move into main window, then move up into
menu bar, back into main window and hover over a link. The cursor immediately
changes back to the normal cursor.
Related branches
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Expired |
Sorry for the terrible summary, but I really don't know how else to describe this problem. It's manifesting in two ways that I can see:
1. In Firefox, sometimes moving the mouse over a link only changes the cursor for the fraction of a second in which the cursor is actually moving. When the cursor is not moving and it's on a link, it just uses the normal cursor image. This doesn't always happen, and I don't know what triggers it.
2. My fluxbox toolbar (which is set up to auto-hide) only shows up if the mouse is all the way at the bottom. If I move the mouse to the bottom so that the toolbar shows up and then move it up a little so as to click something on the toolbar, the toolbar disappears. This seems to always happen. If I move my mouse to a certain place (very close to the bottom of the screen, but not right at the bottom), I can get the toolbar to rapidly show and hide itself without moving the cursor.
I am using server 1.6 rc3. Neither of these problems existed when I was using 1.5.x. I do not actually have any proof other than that principle (can't remember who it's named after) that says that many problems are usually caused by just a few coding errors. And also they both have to do with input.