Google Chrome is undoubtedly the world’s most used browser today. Combining all the major platforms, i.e., Windows, Android and Apple “Mobile” and “Desktop” devices gives Chrome the leading edge. However, when a product is highly popular, more bugs are reported. These are user discovered bugs and are discussed over leading online forums. Google Chrome is no exception to this. Google Chrome resolves them through regular browser upgrades. Issues like memory usage patterns or browser crashing on newer Operating systems are addressed with more original releases. Once such issue is the mysterious disappearance of the “Mouse Pointer” within the browser window. In this post, I am going to talk about how to fix mouse disappearance issues in Chrome.
How To Fix Mouse Disappearance Issues in Chrome
Searching the web will tell you that the matter is not new. Users in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Apple MacOS or even Chromebook devices face similar issues. The problems date back to somewhere in 2014. Follow these simple steps to Fix Mouse Disappearance Issues in Chrome:
Step 1: Open Chrome browser in “Incognito Mode” if the problem persists or not.
Step 2: If the problem does not persist, update Google Chrome to the latest release of Windows 10.
Step 3: Open a new Tab and type Chrome://version and see if you are using the latest version.
See below:
| Google Chrome | 53.0.2785.143 (Official Build) m (64-bit) |
| Revision | f33d44362232c20d1ce2111c53ea8730698f3c88-refs/branch-heads/2785@{#925} |
| OS | Windows |
| Blink | 537.36 (@f33d44362232c20d1ce2111c53ea8730698f3c88) |
| JavaScript | V8 5.3.332.47 |
| Flash | 23.0.0.185 |
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36 |
| Command Line | “C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe” –flag-switches-begin –flag-switches-end |
| Executable Path | C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe |
| Profile Path | C:UsersinghoshAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefault |
| Variations | 6a89113b-a7aa8ed b3888d8d-afba0f91 918346b9-3f4a17df 6345b824-3d47f4f4 7c1bc906-f55a7974 ba3f87da-ca7d8d80 f049a919-3f4a17df f1aba312-50813a0c f15c1c09-ca7d8d80 db19c37b-4ad60575 93731dca-3f4a17df 9e5c75f1-c16ec2e6 f5dd6118-3d47f4f4 f79cb77b-3d47f4f4 b7786474-d93a0620 74df3f1-3f4a17df 868bda90-ca7d8d80 4ea303a6-ecbb250e 3d7e3f6a-2eb01455 7aa46da5-8279be7 f8c15c50-f23d1dea 9736de91-ca7d8d80 dbffab5d-ca7d8d80 81fca794-19eaf52c 6844d8aa-669a04e0 f47ae82a-746c2ad4 3ac60855-486e2a9c f296190c-3a9ae350 4442aae2-6e597ede ed1d377-e1cc0f14 75f0f0a0-d7f6b13c e2b18481-9d9eea77 e7e71889-4ad60575 828a5926-ca7d8d80 |
| Compiler | MSVC 2015 |
Step 4: On a new browser in Chrome, Type “Chrome://settings”
Step 5: Click on “Show Advanced Settings” See screenshot below:
Step 6: Uncheck the option which says “Use Hardware Accleration when available“.
Note: If the option is already unchecked (non-default), please check the option and restart the browser. Toggling this option seems to solve the problem.
This should resolve the problem temporarily until Google issues a permanent fix to this matter. Till then, Happy browsing!
Conclusion:
Currently, we did not find any specific patterns to recreate this issue. We recommend that you use the latest version of their browser, since a bug fix could resolve this problem for good.
You can voice it out on the Google Forums, since a lot of users are already talking about it. If you have questions or suggestions for us, do let us know. Feel free to drop us a comment below in the comment section.