When Ubuntu 26.04LTS opens an application, the mouse is often busy. What is this problem? How to resolve it? For example, edge browsers

This was my experience, Others have also reported this.

@ogra has it right above — it’s gnome-shell waiting for a “ready” signal from the launched app that never arrives, so the spinner runs until it times out. Nothing to do with your hardware or with Edge specifically.

It’s already a confirmed bug:

Click “This bug affects me” and subscribe — no need to file a duplicate.

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This bug has been fixed in a proposed libmutter update.

I had to enable proposed updates in the developer options section of software&updates and restarted after applying
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