147885 - JavaScript Status bar text from one tab is seen in all tabs.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104532

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Mike Keathley]

Overview Description:

When viewing multiple pages using the tabbed browsing feature, if a web page
uses JavaScript to continually display text in the status bar (i.e. scrolling
text and other effects), this text is displayed no matter which tab you are viewing.

This gets more interesting when you open pages using these kind of effects in
more than one tab.  Both scripts will work.  The status bar will just flash back
and forth between them (depending, of course, on how often the script is
updating the status bar).

Steps to Reproduce:

1.) Open a few tabs displaying pages with no JavaScript effects.
2.) In one of the tabs, open a page that uses JavaScript status bar text effects
examples:
http://javascriptkit.com/script/cut75.shtml
http://javascriptkit.com/script/cut11.shtml
http://www.web-source.net/javascript_status_clock.htm
http://happysmart.net/JavaScript/StatusBar/StatusBarTime.htm
3.) Go back to the other tabs.  Notice the effect from the other page is still
there.

Expected Results:

I think that only the active tab should have access to the status bar.

Build Dates & Platforms:

I have reproduced this on Win98 using build 2002052306, and on MacOS 9.1 using
build 2002031106.

Comment 1

[Niklas Mehner]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104532 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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