Comment 16 for bug 11462

I have just checked this again and it still works just fine for me. Let me
describe in more detail:

* The test system is the Ubuntu hoary i386 release CD, upgraded to current
breezy via apt-get dist-upgrade.
* Pretty much all of the settings and so forth are as in the default install.

The test I carried out was: click on the world icon in the main menubar, and
immediately move the mouse to the backdrop and maintain it there. The mouse
changes briefly to the circular `busy' shape, and changes back to the usual
arrow when the firefox window appears. Then, I clicked on the world icon again;
in this case the firefox window appears very nearby and very quickly I have to
move the mouse quickly to another part of the desktop to find some background;
the mouse is then the arrow shape and I haven't seen the `busy' at all.

To try to reproduce your problem more accurately I then resized my existing
firefox windows and repeated the second half of the test. The new windows
appeared well out of the way and I was able to see the mouse cursor briefly
assume the spinning circle shape and quickly change back as the window appears.

If it doesn't work for you, I think you must have some different configuration.
 Do you have any plugins etc. ? You could try it with a fresh profile (move
.mozilla aside).