Safari 5 Mouse Cursor Disappears

I'm done.
Maybe you didn't notice, but we're all volunteers here.
You do not appreciate the time others take to try to help you.
I'm asking very good troubleshooting questions.
You are giving no good answers.

The first thing I did was test the page, btw. Works fine.
It's in YOUR setup.

(In the future, lay off the all caps for emphasis.)

Thanks for the typing LESSON. Page load fine in Firefox, I'll continue to help others and experiment with logical suggestions. This is a SAFARI 5.0 issue, and since I'm NOT the only one having this issue, then I doubt it's simply "YOUR setup", or in this case MY setup. Seems you need "emphasis", how would I know you tested the link, since you did not report such. It's NOT a mouse driver issue, it's not a PLIST issue, so far as I can tell, and it's not solved yet. But thanks anyways for trying.

The mouse definitely has nothing to do witht he issue.

@all: stay friendly

I think Safari 5 was a little bit rushed…

This is deffo NOT (sorry, caps, but intended) mouse related! It's a Safari 5 thing... 10.6.4 here on a brand new 17" MBP, and both the trackpad and the Mighty mouse 'have' loosing pointers and hands. I have to move the cursur to the dock to revive 'm...

Hopefully someone with enough endurance can help us out 🙂

It's a wild shot, I don't think that it would help, but maybe installing the last combo-update from the Apple download section over the current os will solve the problem. I have to much to do right now to perform such a cleaning procedure.

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Update (887 MB):

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048

I'm working off the combo update.

BUT, that's not to say it would hurt. I would suggest anyone doing that to make a clone of their HD beforehand, as most already know. SuperDuper creates bootable backups.

I'm going to skip re-doing the combo update, but if anyone tries it, certainly let us know. This sure is an odd one.

I honestly think there is no need to do a backup up front.
It's OS X, not Windows. (^_-)

I never did it. What will get lost is stuff like some Windows which the user has set to always open in list view, etc.

There are many reasons to make a bootable clone before installing or re-installing or overwriting your OS. One is if you have a power failure and your UPS times out. It's a good insurance policy no matter how you slice it, I rotate 3 clones all the time, and until you need a current clone, you won't miss it, but when you do, well for anyone that has ever lost data, then you know. As I mentioned, I doubt reinstalling the combo update will solve this problem, but it might, as an outside shot. My system is anything less then "clean", it's updates built on updates, but it's working in every other regard. Maybe those having no issues here, have newer or cleaner installs?

Doing a complete makeover from your OS/Mac for a small problem in Safari sounds to me like a dancing elephant in a porcelain shop, just let Apple fix this, jeeze... 🙂

Sure, assuming they even know about it, or it affects more then just those in this thread. I'm sure it ranks high, right next to fixing my iPhone 4 antenna issues. 🙂

My favorite Apple Tech level #1 phone response: "please reinstall your operating system". Now that's a "dancing elephant"!

A bit OT, but: AND Flash is getting even worse... Clicking on a tab with a Flash background (already loaded) does a 100% CPU-usage in Safari, clicking on another tab and it goes down to 2%, whilst the site is still active in another tab...

Addition: it's not an Safari-only issue. It also happens on Chrome.

So my guess is that 10.6.4 messed things up here. No I'm really
thinking we have to play the waiting game.

I wrote to a web designer friend of mine and got some suggestions and ran some more tests using the link that always shows this issue on my 10.6.4 Snow Leopard system running Safari 5.0. FlashPlayer plug-in is version: 10.1 r53.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/06/iphone-4-review.html

I just went through the four "web content" choices in Safari 5.0 under the "Security" prefs tab. The only one that toggles this behavior is the first item called "Enable plug-ins". With "enable plug-ins" set to OFF, the offending web page loads, and the mouse cursor is fine, but the top of the page is missing the video, large white space holder is seen. I asked him what kind of video link it was, and he responded: "The main video, the banner ad and 2 sidebar ads are all in Flash. One way I know that is that I use ClicktoFlash".

In his next message a few minutes later, he tried that same page, running the same software, and it CRASHED his Safari app. He said he did NOT lose the cursor, but the effect was the same.

His last comments were:
"They have more junk on that page than you can shake a stick at. Safari crashed a few more times too. Flash is a plugin which is why you see the blank box. I would say a lot of this problem is all the non standard crap the LA Times is using for marketing, advertising, tracking while they slowly drown."

So it's possible that Flash Player content is one culprit perhaps combined with bad HTML code writing on certain web pages. Try changing the "plug-in" settings I described above in both Safari and Chrome to see my findings, (NOTE: I do not have Chrome installed here).

It would be useful to have some more links that exhibit this behavior posted here. Anyone?

Experiencing the same issues, throughout all apps, and Finder too.

I opened activity monitor, (force) *killed "Flash"*, and all is well.

I will keep doing this should the issue continue see if I can observe consistent results.

Wow, that's incredible. Sorry to hear of that kind of trouble. All apps and finder as well. Things are certainly pointing to "Flash" issues, I'm going to google and look at the other forums here as well. Many of these kinds of threads, like this one get buried, or people just start new ones without searching, so information is totally scattered about, one of the reasons I don't bother often looking for help in these forums, it's all over the place. I'll continue to monitor this thread, as I like a good puzzle now and then. Thanks for the feedback.