Stanron wrote: It looks like it's the 'grabber' in DaveRo's reply. I just can't figure out what it is that I do that turns it on. It doesn't happen every time I click on a link. If I spot it and click in space it seems to drop a link, which fades away, and the cursor returns to the arrow type.

You're accidentally dragging the link rather than cleanly clicking it.

If you hold down the left mouse button then click and drag the link you should see the link text move across the screen for as long as you hold he left mouse button down.

Try dragging it to the tabs bar, to the right of the last tab. At that point the cursor will change again to indicate you can drop it there, which opens the link as a tab. There are various other places you can drop it - like on the toolbar. You can also - probably - drag it onto another program window like you often can with files to upload them.

All that applies to this Debian laptop. I don't know if Windows does that. Sometimes website include code which interferes with normal browser actions.

The cursor is defined in CSS BTW. So in my Mudcat Browser Tools addon I gave the green buttons a pointy finger to show they are buttons - being too lazy to put a fancy shaded box round them ;)