299765 - when dom.disable_window_status_change is set to true, changing window.status onmouseover of a hyperlink does not put anything in the address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40838

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Grant Wohl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050705 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050705 Firefox/1.0+

If the dom.disable_window_status_change preference is set to true, changing
window.status on the onmouseover of a link does not put anything in the status bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set the dom.disable_window_status_change preference to true.
2.Open the attached testcase.
3.Put your mouse over the link.
4.Look at the status bar.

Actual Results:  
"Done" was displayed in the status bar.

Expected Results:  
The address of the link should be displayed in the status bar.

Comment 1

[Grant Wohl]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Grant Wohl]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40838 ***