For the past few days whenever I use Brave, the cursor starts acting broken after a few minutes of use. It stays the same even when I hover above hyperlinks, text, images, etc… and instead after I hover over these objects, when I hover over normal areas, such as the tabs bar at the top, it suddenly …

@badsector1 it looks like this should be fixed in the minor update we’ll be pushing tomorrow. See @kamil ’s comment on the Github issue here: cursor disappearing/getting stuck in different states opened 06:31PM - 07 Feb 25 UTC (UTC) …

FWIW, not just you. Thank you for describing the problem better than I could.

[image] Mouse Disappears while watching Youtube/Twitch Desktop Support We believe that this is a Chromium issue that was inherited as part of the Chromium bump during the last update: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/394108919 [image] Mouse hover o…

On W10 too. Yeah the cursor keeps getting stuck on the finger constantly. Or it gets stuck on regular cursor. I’ve even had the cursor disappear! I suspect what is happening is the cursor transforms (finger, regular, invisible) but then doesn’t transform back and gets stuck. Maybe this is all one bi…

Completely broken in Windows 11 too… After a random amount of the time, the cursor/pointer will: Disappear and/or Flash and/or change to a Resize cursor (Brave 1.75.175, Windows 11 23H2, Ryzen 7 5700G) edit: this bug seems to be exacerbated by using Youtube

Yes, definitely something is wrong with 1.75.175; Intermittent Pausing scroll, slow to load, and may be eating OS system resources (CPU/Memory). Started immediately after updating to 1.75.175. Close Brave and laptop back to normal. Rebooted laptop. Open another broswer and all normal. Hope this he…

I have this issue too. I have never had a brave update break so many things all at once and it pisses me off. On a saturday, really?

This forum is idiotic i edited additional info and spam filter hidden my post, that’s what i get for bothering add more info…

disabling hardware acceleration in settings fixes it hope they fix the issue soon

Turning off hardware acceleration makes it happen less, not go away. However, when hardware acceleration is turned off, opening a new tab makes it stop immediately (before it randomly happens again).

100% accurate. Happens to me all the time since last update. Please fix ASAP

Cursor Is Completely Broken on Windows 10

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