Description of the issue:
Mouse cursor disappears behind windows. Mouse will reappear at the perimeter of the window, but disappears behind the content once it has entered into the main body of the window (pas the tabs/address bar).
How can this issue be reproduced?
Open multiple tabs with Brave taking up half the screen, docked on the left side of the monitor (I have tabs stacked vertically on the left)
Drag one of the tabs to it’s own window (mouse should start disappearing now behind the new window)
Drag the tab to the right side of the screen so the new window snaps to the right half of the screen (the mouse will now disappear behind the original window, also)
Close the new window and the mouse will stop disappearing and function normally
Expected result:
Mouse stays visible
Brave Version( check About Brave
):
1.75.175
Additional Information:
Moving the mouse back and forth past both windows to the perimeters (I go to the address bar on the right window to the vertical tabs on the left of the left window) will intermittently make the mouse reappear on the original window, even less frequently on the new window, but a couple of repeat trips of the cursor will cause it to start disappearing again.
This is very likely caused by the same upstream issue that is known and has a fix coming tomorrow:
opened 06:31PM - 07 Feb 25 UTC
closed 07:25PM - 12 Feb 25 UTC
bug
feature/user-interface
OS/Windows
priority/P2
QA/Yes
release-notes/include
Chromium/waiting upstream
OS/Desktop
### Description
We're getting reports via https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browse… r/comments/1ijxkxq/mouse_cursor_sometimes_doesnt_appear_at_all_or_is that users are also running into the issue that I've experienced a few times with `C133` on `Win 11 x64`. Originally, I thought it could be related to https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/02/05/windows-11-kb5050094-has-major-issues-including-spinning-cursor-on-windows-11-24h2 but looks like it's most likely an issue that was introduced with `C133`.
When using Brave, sometimes the mouse cursor just "disappears" or gets stuck in different states. For example, these are the cases that I've ran into so far in the last few days on `Nightly` with `C133`:
* cursor completely disappears once you hover over Brave. You can see elements being highlighted, but you can't see the cursor
* cursor getting stuck in incorrect states. For example, getting stuck on the `link pointer` cursor when it should be the regular cursor
* cursor disappearing when hovering over Brave UI. For example, cursor is visible within the WebView but disappears when hovering over UI elements
* Bookmark Toolbar, Vertical Tabs etc..
Usually when the above happens, you need to restart Brave to get the cursor back. Sometimes switching to another application and returning to Brave helps but not always.
### Steps to reproduce
Unfortunately there's no STR/Cases as this is pretty difficult to reproduce. I've personally only ran into this ~3-4 times but don't know why/how it occurred. Tried a few things but had no success getting STR/Cases. Hopefully someone from https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1ijxkxq/mouse_cursor_sometimes_doesnt_appear_at_all_or_is can help with STR/Cases.
### Actual result
As mentioned above, there's a few cases that are occurring (at least these are the scenarios that I've experienced/ran into)
* cursor completely disappears once you hover over Brave. You can see elements being highlighted, but you can't see the cursor
* cursor getting stuck in incorrect states. For example, getting stuck on the `link pointer` cursor when it should be the regular cursor
* cursor disappearing when hovering over Brave UI. For example, cursor is visible within the WebView but disappears when hovering over UI elements
* Bookmark Toolbar, Vertical Tabs etc..
### Expected result
Mouse shouldn't be disappearing/getting into "stuck" states when using Brave.
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version (brave://version info)
```
Brave | 1.77.21 Chromium: 133.0.6943.54 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 63d0f138e633ad45b22e2a9e9ce2676e7a75a827
OS | Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Build 26100.2894)
```
```
Brave | 1.75.175 Chromium: 133.0.6943.54 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 8e82be95a27b2e442e0099307c0c8ad6d12adcf0
OS | Windows 11 Version 24H2 (Build 26100.2894)
```
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [x] beta
- [x] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
- [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
_No response_
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Saoiray
February 13, 2025, 7:01pm
3
@cjfagerstrom Just a final ping for everyone, the issue should be fixed in today’s update. So make sure you’re on 1.75.178
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system
Closed
March 15, 2025, 7:01pm
4
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