That cursor makes me think that the browser has crashed/hung/is not responding.
Re:NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars
by Bluestrike2 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @07:33PM
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Honestly, I'd consider nixing it altogether by default. Even though it's in the CSS spec, :wait effectively duplicates an action that has a rather particular meaning at the level of the OS. Confusion over it is probably more common than one might expect.
You can disable this by removing the `cursor: wait` rule in the CSS file.