Mouse pointer disappearing in type box

[ETandElliott]

My PC recently crashed when I became infuriated with the Fondor Shipyard Assault level in Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, and proceeded to smash my laptop with the TV remote. Since I've been re-installing everything I'm having an issue with forums like this. When I go to type a message, like I'm doing now, my pointer will vanish if I move it within the message area. So highlighting my text and that sort of thing is annoyingly difficult. I've looked through the Firefox preferences and I can't figure it out. Anyone know why this could be? I'm using Vista if that could be related to the problem.

[darthpsychotic]

I have run into the cursor bug before and it maybe due to the custom upgrades done by me.

A few things about MF that may be a part of your problem. There are two versions of PHPBB: the new PHPBB3 and the legacy PHPBB2 which many prefer because of the bloated features of PHPBB3 (and paid forums like vBulletin and Invision). MF still runs on a heavily customized and "super" version of PHPBB2 which I had to modify into running on the latest version PHP and MySQL while incorporating some features of PHPBB3. In other words PHPBB2 + PHPBB3 = mfPHPBB.

What does this have to do with your cursor issue?

I suspect it is a memory issue of some sort. When posting there is a Topic Review window below the post box which features every post in the entire thread at one time - including images and video. This means whenever someone posts in a multi-page megathread like the Transformers for example, your firefox memory footprint inflates (mine is at 1gb as I type this) thanks to all of the multimedia content. Pulling all of that data up at one time while posting a mega-thread such as Transformers probably isn't too good for the database either, so it maybe a good idea to remove "Topic Review" or make it optional.

So is there any thread in particular that does this or is it all of them at this time?

[ETandElliott]

It seems to be all the threads.

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