184638 - window.status text is global for all tabs. update in one tab makes it the status text for all

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104532

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Konstantin Vainer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021128
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021128

when setting window.defaultStatus= or window.status= inside one tab, the text in
window status sticks for every tab in same window, which is confusing....

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open two or more tabs in single window
2. load some url that changes window.defaultStatus in 1st tab
3. load other url that changes window.defaultStatus in 2nd tab
4. switch a couple of times between the tabs, take a look at the status text...

Actual Results:  
the last text used by window.defaultStatus (no matter in what tab) becomes the
defaultStatus text for all the tabs in the window...

Expected Results:  
every tab should have its own text in status line ...
no matter what other tabs change for themselves

i believe tabbed browsing is just the convenient way to put several _windows_
together inside one container. that means that these windows should still have
separate properties - like window.status ... in this example.
i did not check, but i assume that if this behaves the way i described, then
probably "window.close()" will close all the container window instead of just
the tab...

This behavior is confusing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

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