Blue Ball just under the cursor is spinning for no reason when using Facebook (not the app). Is there a fix for this? Seems to only happen when resting. If cursor is on a link then the cursor returns to normal.

Same here. Also using Firefox 39.0 and OSX 10.9 .5. I tried lots of fixes that I found whilst Google the problem but nothing stops it. Just seems to be using Facebook on Firefox browser.

Will keep watching thread to see if there is a fix 🙂

Here's whats happening!

Facebook changed it's code and is now not handling web Browsers that are non-webkit compliant. Every Web Browser reports to a website what type of Browser is running and the website can chose what and how data is sent back. The ID for the Browser is called the UserAgent string. If your UserAgent string reports a Non-webkit Browser, you get served by Facebook a page with coding errors that shows a blue spinning wheel, ball or ring: inline cursor: pointer never removed from document Element, persistent cursor: progress. A little more info is here https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/1331#issuecomment-118227563

Your Options!

You will have to wait for Facebook to fix it's code for Non-webkit compliant Browsers or

Use a webkit compliant Browser Safari, Chrome, Opera... or

wait for the Non-webkit Browsers to upgrade their Browsers code to be compliant or

Use a Workaround by spoofing you Browser UserAgent string to a webkit Compliant string.

There is a post on some temporary workarounds by changing the UserAgent string here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155936539120647&set=a.153874770646.242 231.867270646

I just applied the update 39.0 to Firefox and the spinning blue ball is gone.

15 minutes later....it's back. Ugh.

Thank you for that. Very helpful.

Any idea on how to fix it on mobile devices? The spinner keeps going on the iPad in the Facebook app.

I use the UserAgent Switcher plugin on the FF browser so I can work around that issue easily enough. The mobile devices are piggy using THEIR apps!

I was going to come and put the idea out that this has to be a Facebook issue because of the iPad problems.

I stopped using Safari because it's just not as configurable as FF is. It also doesn't support some of the awesome plugins and there are cookies that you just can't get rid of. I delete them and they just come back in seconds.

Same here and only with Facebook

Is it Facebook or Firefox? Or the combination? Or Mac iOS?

So far it only happens with Facebook, so I assume it's Facebook

New MacBookPro 12,1

Yosemite 10.10.4

Firefox 39.0

lilspils.......Thank you!! This worked for me! I am using OSX 10.6.8 and Firefox 39.0. NO MORE SPINNING BALL!!

My solution was to finally switch to Chrome as I've been meaning to do.

Lilspils, thank you very much. It worked. 🙂

Thank you lilspils, this was an easy fix thanks to you and it WORKS! 🙂

Thanks lilspils. Worked for me. OSX 10.9.5, Firefox 39.

Thank you lilspils. Your solution works!

Lilspils

Am I the only one where your solution didn't work?

I followed your instructions, but......still the blue spinning ball in FACEBOOK only.

Robert

New MacBookPro 12,1

Yosemite 10.10.4

Firefox 39.0

Lilspils

Perfect. I did this NEW method from that Facebook page you referred to AND IT WORKS.

Firefox users - New method (Thanks Keith)

Install both of these Firefox Add-Ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
https://addons.mozilla.org/…/fi…/addon/user-agent-js-fixer/…

Restart Firefox > Goto Tools > UAControl Options >
Add Site > Site: www.facebook.com > Select Custom > Paste this string into Custom

Thanks a lot.