spinning cursor

[Ingmar Camphausen]

Colin,

on Thu, 4 May 2000, Colin Allen <colin-allen at tamu.edu> wrote:

[OW hanging/spinning cursor]

> Last time it happened I tried disabling javascript while
> the cursor was spinning, but nothing changed.  (I was wondering whether
> disabling javascript would also kill any running javascript processes, but
> I knew it was unlikely to work.)

I regularly get the "spinning cursor" problem after some intense usage of  
OW (lots of opened [and some closed] browser windows). Sometimes - usually  
at the beginning of the spinning cursor problem - I only have a spinning  
cursor instead of the normal mouse pointer in OW, but I still can use it as  
it is intended. (Looks as if OW "forgets" to switch back to the non-spinning  
cursor sometimes after a task is done...)

In rarer cases, I have observed the behaviour Piers has described: spinning  
cursor, and sometimes OW manages to recover if it get enough time without  
interactions, but in most cases it "hangs" - or even crashes (producing the  
bug report window).

I am using OW 3.1rc2 on black hardware.

	Ingmar