256204 - window.status cannot be set

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[José Jeria]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040819
Firefox/0.9.1+

window.status cannot be set with javascript. Nothing happends, "Done" stays.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[logan]

dom.disable_window_status_change is enabled by default...

INVALID?

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Options->Web features->Enable Javascript->Advanced -> Change status bar text

probably Invalid

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #2)
> dom.disable_window_status_change is enabled by default...
> 
> INVALID?

How come that this is disabled by default?

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Because of bug 252811.

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Done by design. INVALID 

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 276090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Robert Parenton]

*** Bug 294147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 300755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 319963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 320994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Greg K.]

Verified Invalid.

Comment 13

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** Bug 343761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[L. Mohan Arun]

Actually I have this option enabled, dom.disable_window_status_change is "false" but it doesnt work in some cases. Works in second case in URL below, doesnt work with hyperlinked anchor text in the first case.

Test case
http://49dollarlogo.com/windowstatus.html