Solve Gmail's Disappearing Cursor in Safari
This has been annoying me for the longest time.
Gmail uses Flash to provide “advanced attachment features,” the capability to attach multiple files at once and to display progress bars while attachments upload. As far as I know, that’s the only place Gmail relies on Flash, and if you switch to Basic Attachment Features in Gmail’s Settings, that eliminates Gmail’s use of Flash and works around the bug.
I’ve looked for a solution before, but it was never given a high priority. I guess I just assumed that Google and/or Apple would care enough about getting it fixed to, you know, fix it. Apparently not.
The fix is somewhat “hacky”, but it works and I haven’t felt any sense of lost functionality in the short time since turning off the whiz-bang attachment functionality.
