I've begun to notice with increasing frequency that my mouse cursor erratically just disappears when I'm browsing macrumors on Safari. I suspect it has to do with certain javascripts on the forums, but it's getting really annoying. I've seen other related complaints elsewhere, but I wonder if anyone's got a fix.
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Mouse cursor disappears while browsing macrumors in Safari
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Ditto for me. It's odd. I have to click off Safari to another application for it to return. It's "invisible" as I'm able to click on things by seeing the link highlight, but no actual graphical cursor.
Is this a new problem or has it been happening for some time? I've never seen it on either of my computers.
It happens on front page. On forum pages (and other sites) too but only when front page is open in other tab it seems.
My bet: it has something to do with Safar Extensions, or is here anybody who is still on Safari 4 or who has Extensios disabled?
We have to try that one to, it was also my first guess that one of the CSS modifing extensions has something to do with it.
So, disable Safari Extensions. If it works, we might only have to narrow down the suspect (or it'll be that it's the whole extension thingy... I mean ... they are still in beta, right? Why else should apple have made it more or less that complicated to activate them
We have to try that one to, it was also my first guess that one of the CSS modifing extensions has something to do with it.
So, disable Safari Extensions. If it works, we might only have to narrow down the suspect (or it'll be that it's the whole extension thingy... I mean ... they are still in beta, right? Why else should apple have made it more or less that complicated to activate them
It does not happen to me today. I have emptied cache a few time to get some flash animations to update correctly but I did that yesterday too and still had the cursor issue.
This is a common problem with passive matrix displays, sometimes called 'submarining'. I'd recommend either purchasing a Powerbook with an active matrix display, such as a Powerbook 170, or downloading one of the many System 7 Extensions or Control Panels that increase the size of the mouse pointer:
http://trace.wisc.edu/computer/mac/macshare.html
http://trace.wisc.edu/computer/mac/macshare.html
It's a wild shot, I don't think that it would help, but maybe installing the last combo-update from the Apple download section over the current os will solve the problem. I have to much to do right now to perform such a cleaning procedure.
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Update (887 MB):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Update (887 MB):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048
I've got 10.6.4 but it doesn't seem to have resolved this. In fact, I think it even probably exaggerated it a bit.
That's interesting, I'll try Firefox now since it's not a Webkit based browser - could be that 10.6.4 interactions is causing this webkit-only error but who knows.
But I think OS X 10.6.4 messed things up here and we'll have to play the waiting game.
I was losing the cursor in Macrumors when a certain banner ad was showing - see this thread.
I also lost the cursor on another site (sorry, can't remember which), where the same airline ad was showing.
This happened in Safari 4 and 5, under 10.6.3 and 10.6.4. Also in Firefox IIRC. I've not seen the ad for a while and have not had the problem.
Being in the UK, I've not experienced the ad that Belly-laughs showed in his screenshot.
I also lost the cursor on another site (sorry, can't remember which), where the same airline ad was showing.
This happened in Safari 4 and 5, under 10.6.3 and 10.6.4. Also in Firefox IIRC. I've not seen the ad for a while and have not had the problem.
Being in the UK, I've not experienced the ad that Belly-laughs showed in his screenshot.