Re: pkg/59768: Firefox-efr: mouse pointer does no change over links

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59768; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/59768: Firefox-efr: mouse pointer does no change over links
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:32:02 -0500

 > I see this problem for a very few pkgsrc releases. Don't recall which
 > pkgsrc release brought in this issue:
 >=20
 > Hovering the mouse over a link should change the pointer from 'arrow'
 > to 'hand / finger'. This does not happen.
 >=20
 > I build packages from src.
 >=20
 > I don't see this problem on other browsers like palemoon.
 
 Short answer, if you're fine with the legacy X11 cursor set here, go to
 about:config in Firefox, find "widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled",
 change it to "true", restart the browser, and you should see the hand
 icon appear over links. (This works for me with firefox140, which is the
 firefox-esr version available in pkgsrc HEAD.)
 
 Longer answer, see for example this Mozilla PR:
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1876366
 particularly (perhaps)
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1876366#c15
 It's marked "resolved", but it isn't, necessarily, from a user's
 perspective.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave