Mouse cursor disappears sometimes on Firefox for Mac

Sometimes, only when Firefox is open, the mouse cursor disappears. I can still click, but the cursor is invisible.

Does the mouse pointer only disappear when the pointer is in a Firefox window (user interface or browser part or both) or is it gone outside Firefox as well?

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