Mac Chrome hover events behave differently when window is maximised

Question

A web page I am developing has mouse over events (both css and javascript) for a top navigation bar. It works fine when the browser window is floating, but when maximized (full screen) the hover classes have no effect anymore. It begins to act like a tablet display, I must point and click for my hover actions to take effect. I achieve the events when I click, but mouse hover changes my cursor to a text select cursor.

This does not happen on a windows computer

As a matter of fact, this behaviour is good if it is meant to support tablets but I'd appreciate if anybody could let me know if this is a bug or intended?

Answer 1

This is a 3+ year old unfixed bug in Chromium.

http://crbug.com/170058