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Mouse cursor disappears when hovering certain content in applications like Balsamiq, Miro, Google Maps

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    1. Observed On

Firefox 92.0 on WIndows 10

    1. Steps to reproduce

1. I work on a Balsamiq wireframes, I hover a canva

    1. Behaviour

The mouse cursor disappears

    1. Expected behaviour

It should be always visible

    1. Other info

Also noticed with Miro or Google Maps embedded Changing the browser fixed the issue

## Observed On Firefox 92.0 on WIndows 10 ## Steps to reproduce 1. I work on a Balsamiq wireframes, I hover a canva ## Behaviour The mouse cursor disappears ## Expected behaviour It should be always visible ## Other info Also noticed with Miro or Google Maps embedded Changing the browser fixed the issue
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Hey there!

Please see the following link for some help:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1350334

Hope I helped!

Kind regards,

Bithiah

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See also:

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Thanks for you help. I read the two threads and I followed the instructions but it did not solve the problem unfortunately

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I also noticed that the appearance when editing a document in Google Docs is less sharp than it was. See the attached images taken for the same document with Chrome and Firefox

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Hey there!

It seems that someone else also is having the same issue! I advise you to submit this as a bug so the devs can fix this.

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Google maps uses a custom cursor and I assume this is the same with the other websites. You can check this map image in the Inspector.

This cursor file is loaded from internet just like other images, so if you do not see this cursor then it is likely that you are blocking this file. Are you using content blocking extensions ?

You can check in the Network Monitor what files are loaded from "maps.gstatic.com" (use the filter.