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.

The fix in the first post is from me. Glad it has cleared blue balls for you all 🙂

If anyone that better understands UserAgent strings, can find the best string to use on Mac's running FF, please share!

Currently I'm testing this UA string in FF,

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/7046A194A

The Original string from my FB post was
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.166 Safari/537.36 OPR/20.0.1396.73172

I don't use Linux, but it still worked. Thanks.

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

I thought it hadn't first try and then I saw some of my FB pages are on the UK site & some .com. After adding facebook.co.uk & facebook.com and restarting Firefox it worked 🙂

Citylights, I implemented your fix, which got rid of the blue ball--thank you! But I am noticing a new (possibly related?) phenomenon--when replying to comments now, Facebook no longer "recognizes" and tags names--there is probably a name for this, but I don't know what it is. Any ideas whether the add-ons would have caused that? And thanks again!

Facebook seem to be fixing it, mine is not doing it on my profile now, so maybe they are rolling out a fix at last, not sure how log it takes across the board but I'm happy.

Facebook has resolved their coding error that led to the Spinning Cursor. If you have altered your UserAgent string as a workaround you should remove it now.

Yes, Citylights, I did exactly that--thanks again for the fix and the advice. Much appreciated--it's all back to normal now!

I disabled the fix and the blue ball came back. 😕

I testing Snapdoc. Glad I didn't disable it yet.

The weird thing is that I just got the blue spinning ball on eBay! It was only on Facebook before and that is still ok this morning. Looks like I will have to add eBay to the list as well?