gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » mouse cursor http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mouse Cursor Disappearing Frequently In Firefox, Internet Explorer And Operahttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:14:44 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14293 flickr file synchronization softwareRoman send me an email yesterday about a problem that he researched the other day. He noticed that the mouse cursor in every Firefox tab was disappearing and appearing again with no apparent reason for this behavior. The strange thing was that all tabs were affected, not only one where the webmaster might have played around with Javascript or other scripts. Roman discovered that the disappearing mouse cursor was caused by the Flickr video script.

Users who want to test it can visit the Drupal User Experience website and start playing the first video on the page. They will notice that the cursor will start to disappear for short intervals on all tabs that are open in Firefox. Tests with other web browsers revealed that some show like Opera and Internet Explorer show the same behavior while others like the Google browser Google Chrome seems to be immune and show the cursor all the time.

The problem persists even after stopping the playback of the video in question. One solution is to close the tab that contains the website with the Flickr video which stopped the mouse cursor from disappearing in Firefox. Another solution offered by Roman was to block the Flickr video script with the Firefox add-on NoScript.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/feed/ 4 Install Aero Cursor Scheme In Windows XPhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/05/install-aero-cursor-scheme-in-windows-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/05/install-aero-cursor-scheme-in-windows-xp/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:19:28 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7426 You find many tutorials on the Internet about installing fonts that shipped with Windows Vista in Windows XP. There are literally hundreds of websites that explain how to change the look and feel of Windows XP so that it resembles a Windows Vista Theme but only a handful that tell you how to use and install the Windows Vista Aero cursor set in Windows XP.

The easiest way to install the Windows Vista Aero cursor set in Windows XP is to simply download a specially prepared package that comes with an installer. All that needs to be done to install the cursor package is to right-click the Install.inf file that comes with the package and choose the install option from the context menu.

The cursor package will be installed in Windows XP and can then be selected in the Control Panel as the main cursor scheme for Windows XP. The correct path is Control Panel > Mouse and a click on the Pointers tab in that window.

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The Aero cursor scheme should show up in the menu as Aero Cursors (Alphablended). A selection of that cursor scheme and a click on the Apply button will activate the cursor scheme in Windows XP. The cursor scheme has been tested in Windows XP SP3 English and found to be working fine. It should work with other language editions of Windows XP as well.

Update: Windows XP and Windows Vista users can download the Windows 7 cursor scheme to their computer systems. The mouse cursor pack is offered on the developer’s Deviant Art page. Installation is handled exactly in the same way. Extract the contents of the package to your system, right-click tine install.rdf file and select the installation option to install the new cursors in the operating system. The scheme appears as Windows 7 mouse cursors in the configuration panel.

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