Firefox cursor shape not changing

Kaminar · Monday at 8:17 AM

After upgrading Firefox to version 144, the cursor no longer changes from an arrow to a hand when hovering over a link. This issue doesn't occur on other operating systems. Do you experience the same problem with Firefox on FreeBSD?

Espionage724 · Monday at 8:44 AM

Looks fine for me FreeBSD 15.0, Firefox 140.4.0esr

Useradd · Monday at 8:51 AM

Espionage724 said:
Looks fine for me FreeBSD 15.0, Firefox 140.4.0esr

Same for me on 14.3-RELEASE-p5, firefox-144.0_2,2.

Kaminar · Monday at 8:59 AM

Interesting — I have the same problem with Firefox installed in a FreeBSD 14.3-p5 virtual machine. It first appeared in Firefox version 142.

fraxamo · Monday at 9:35 AM

Kaminar said:
Do you experience the same problem with Firefox on FreeBSD?

I have had the same issue since upgrading to 13.5-RELEASE. I'm running XFCE so assumed that was where the problem was. What WM or DE are you running Firefox under?

Kaminar · Monday at 9:49 AM

I run x11-wm/e16 version 1.0.31 on FreeBSD 14.3-p5.

Useradd · Monday at 9:57 AM

I have xorg-7.7_3 and xfce-4.20 installed.

Kaminar · Monday at 11:09 AM

I switched to Firefox ESR 140.4.0, but the cursor problem persists.

Maxnix · Monday at 11:24 AM

Do you use the default Xorg cursor? This appened to me with MATE, so I changed the cursor theme to Adwaita and now Firefox changes shapes normally.

fjdlr · Monday at 12:20 PM

Kaminar said:
After upgrading Firefox to version 144, the cursor no longer changes from an arrow to a hand when hovering over a link. This issue doesn't occur on other operating systems. Do you experience the same problem with Firefox on FreeBSD?

Same, FreeBSD 14.3 p5 and Firefox 144.0 (amd64)

Kaminar · Monday at 5:20 PM

Maxnix said:
Do you use the default Xorg cursor? This appened to me with MATE, so I changed the cursor theme to Adwaita and now Firefox changes shapes normally.

I use the default Xorg cursor.

Espionage724 · 2025-10-29T20:39:32+0000

I saw an install note that mentioned something specific about Firefox 140+ and mouse cursors not changing on hover (something about X themes?)

fraxamo · 2025-10-29T20:55:15+0000

Espionage724 said:
I saw an install note that mentioned something specific about Firefox 140+ and mouse cursors not changing on hover (something about X themes?)

Thanks. Running pkg info -D firefox | less shows the following text:

## Cursors

From Firefox 142 on, this port defaults to using the new (themed)
cursor selection. On the upside, this makes Firefox respect the
desktop environment's theme, on the downside this breaks compatibility
with the legacy X cursor names. If you experience issues (i.e. the
mouse cursor not changing to the pointer ("hand") when hovering over
links), your desktop environment is most likely still set to the legacy
default/builtin "theme". To remedy this, either
- set about:config variable "widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled" to "true"
to re-enable the legacy cursors, or
- use the Xcursor framework to set a cursor theme (e.g. X resource
item Xcursor.theme), see Xcursor(3) for details. The Adwaita theme
will have been installed as a dependency of gtk3 and does work.
The latter option is only available for X environments.

Edit: After changing the widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled setting and restarting Firefox the cursor now changes correctly when hovering over a link.

cy@ · 2025-10-29T21:22:48+0000

To revert the cursor back, put about:config in the address line.

Search for the widget.gtk.legacy-cursors.enabled option and change it to true.