Ugly busy cursor in Thunderbird 9
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
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Low
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Chris Coulson | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Chris Coulson |
Bug Description
Something changed starting in Thunderbird 9, and it now displays a fairly ugly black busy cursor briefly when refreshing mailboxes
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: thunderbird 9.0~b2+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64
AddonCompatChec
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20111124160109
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6960000 irq 45'
Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:111d76d5,
Controls : 23
Simple ctrls : 12
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'Headset'/'Logitech Logitech USB Headset at usb-0000:
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB046d:0a0b'
Controls : 6
Simple ctrls : 2
Channel: beta
Date: Thu Dec 8 19:47:29 2011
DefaultProfileI
CouchDB addressbook integration - <email address hidden>, Version=0.0.1, minVersion=
Developer Assistant - ID={75739dec-
DefaultProfileP
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.4 (1.1.4-1ubuntu2)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlug
VLC Multimedia Plug-in - Lib=libvlcplugi
Shockwave Flash - Lib=libflashpla
Gnome Shell Integration - Lib=libgnome-
iTunes Application Detector - Lib=librhythmbo
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.3 metric 1
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 metric 2
Profile1Plugins:
Gnome Shell Integration - Lib=libgnome-
VLC Multimedia Plug-in - Lib=libvlcplugi
Shockwave Flash - Lib=libflashpla
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.1.3 (1.1.3-1ubuntu1)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlug
iTunes Application Detector - Lib=librhythmbo
Profiles:
Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
Profile1 - LastVersion=
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-16 (22 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/15/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 04373Y
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
Related branches
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | nobody → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Created attachment 580512
Video of the "spinning" cursor in Thunderbird 8
I've noticed whilst running Thunderbird 9 beta that when my mailboxes refresh, my mouse pointer changes to a really ugly busy cursor. In Thunderbird 8, the cursor seemed to not look too bad.
I just rebuilt the latest comm-beta after reverting http:// hg.mozilla. org/releases/ mozilla- beta/rev/ 875cb4f20eac, and it seems to fix it. I've not fully investigated why this patch would break it just yet.
The less attractive spinning cursor also appears occasionally in Firefox too, although it appears a lot more in Thunderbird.
This can be easily reproduced in Firefox or Thunderbird by using a JS shell and doing window. setCursor( "spinning" ). I've attached 2 videos of me doing this before and after reverting the mentioned patch