214243 - Javascript status bar scrolling follows you across different tabbed pages.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104532

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Robi Brunner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

Not sure if this is intended, but it would seem that if you were to switch tabs,
the status bar should be as that page uses it (or not uses it).  If the status
bar is unused on a page, switching to that tab/page should reset the status bar.
 Where as when you switch into a tab that uses the status bar via javascript, it
should then activate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load 2 tabs
2.Pick any page for the first tab
3.Use this page for the second tab:  http://www.hvcn.org/info/ydl/index2.html 
or any other page with Javascript scrolling.
4.Switch between the 2 tabs.  The status bar at the bottom will be scrolling
regardless of which tab is currently visible.

Actual Results:  
Switching tabs keeps the javascript code running on the bottom which may have
nothing to do with the currently visible tab.

Expected Results:  
Switching tabs should use the status space as the page uses or not uses it. 
Scrolling should go away for the page that doesnt use scrolling javascript in
the status bar.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is a dup of an existing bug, if someone can find it.  Reference bug 104532
comment 113.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So far, all bugs along these lines have been dupped to bug 104532

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

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