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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Dec 2017
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Pointer shape changes eat mouse movement

Reported by wout.mer...@gmail.com, Nov 20 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to https://codepen.io/wmertens/pen/LOQWMG on a macbook pro running macOS 10.13
2. Follow the instructions, basically running your cursor over text where the cursor changes from regular to text a lot.

What is the expected behavior?
3. Nothing noticeable

What went wrong?
3. Notice that somehow, this shortens the path traveled vs moving the same distance without cursor changes.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.0
Flash Version: 

I have the impression that it only started happening recently, or else I only noticed recently. Not sure if "recently" means e.g. Chrome 60 or macOS 10.13. I just think I would have noticed it before.
 

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Labels: Needs-Triage-M62
Cc: divya.pa...@techmahindra.com
Labels: Needs-Feedback Triaged-ET
Unable to reproduce the issue on reported version 62.0.3202.94 and latest build 64.0.3275.0 using Mac 10.13.0. 

Could you please re-try the scenario by creating a new profile or removing unwanted extensions
Please follow below steps to create a New profile
(i) Click the avatar icon on top right of the browser and click on manage people
(ii) In the new window, on the bottom right, click on Add person
(iii) Enter the person name and click on save

Please find the attached screen-cast and let us know if we have missed any steps in the process of reproducing the issue.

786955.mp4
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I just noticed that the latest version of Slack has the same problem, and I didn't notice it before. Since they use Electron, it means that the problem is not tied to my Chrome user profile, but it might be some system setting like screen scaling. I will try to produces a screencast.

In any case, the idea is that you go from top to bottom on column Q only, so that there is a cursor change on every line. When I use a ruler, I have to go farther than to the left of the Q column

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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Nov 23 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "divya.padigela@techmahindra.com" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
I am attaching a recording of a reproduction with the latest version of Slack, which uses Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Electron/1.6.15 (I ran `strings` on the framework file).

I'm moving my finger slowly from the top of the trackpad to the bottom and back, at a constant speed so there is no acceleration factor. I do this once on the blank space and once on the text in the chat window which causes many cursor transitions.

As you can see, the first time I can go to the bottom of the window and the second time only to 3/4.
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Cc: reve...@chromium.org
Components: -UI
[mac bug triage]

+reveman@ - would you be able to help triage this?
Cc: a...@chromium.org sdy@chromium.org
+ mac experts

Comment 9 by sdy@chromium.org, Nov 29 2017

Thanks for the report. Have you tried this in other browsers, especially Safari? In general, I don't believe that Chrome affects mouse movement. I could be wrong, though, and it's an interesting bug :-).

Comment 10 by sdy@chromium.org, Nov 29 2017

I wrote a little test program that rapidly switches the cursor. It does seem to move a little bit slower with a similar metric to the one you described: I put the cursor at the top of the screen, then slowly move my finger from the top of the trackpad to the bottom, and check where the cursor ended up on the screen.

I'm not 100% sure that it's real, but if you can reproduce the issue with the attached test program, then you might need to report this to Apple instead.
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@sdy wow, I really notice the difference. Perhaps screen scaling is involved, or multi-monitor. I can only travel 50% of the distance while cursyour is active.

So yes, this seems to be an Apple issue. It would be great if you also reported it, Apple looks at aggregate reports generally.
I opened an issue via bugreport.apple.com. This issue can probably be closed…
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 14 by sdy@chromium.org, Dec 4 2017

One last thing! Could you post the Apple bug ID for posterity?

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