Skip to content

Invisible cursor in the Firefox debugger #875

@o-alquimista

Description

@o-alquimista

What Happened?

When a debugging breakpoint is reached, the cursor becomes invisible while hovering the webpage.

2025-11-14.16-21-47.mp4
Screenshot of Firefox running in elementary OS, showing the Firefox debugger and an invisible cursor hovering the Resume button

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Inspect any webpage and open the Debugger tab.
  2. Setup a breakpoint and trigger it. When that happens, the webpage area will appear dimmed.
  3. Hover the cursor over the dimmed area.

Expected Behavior

It works on GNOME.

Screenshot of a GNOME desktop showing a visible cursor within the Firefox debugger

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

  • elementary is running Firefox 145 (Snap from Mozilla)
  • The GNOME desktop I showed earlier is running Firefox ESR 140, so further testing is necessary to make sure it's not a Firefox issue.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions