223311 - status bar text (including URL) is truncated / compressed unnecessarily

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Chris Pickett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

For longer URLS, all you get is <the first few characters of a URL> + "..." +
<the last few characters>.  I don't remember this problem with previous
versions, and it's annoying since I have this big empty status bar that could
easily fit the URL.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Expected Results:  
Instead, I think Mozilla should only cut out the middle part of URL's when the
URL is too long to fit on the status bar (and that would be an extremely long
URL for me).

Comment 1

[Chris Pickett]

Attachment: cropped screenshot showing compressed status bar URL

When I took this screenshot, my mouse was over the "Last" hyperlink in the bug
list navigation links at the top of any Bugzilla bug report page.

It happens really frequently.

All you need to do is let the user select a maximum status bar URL length
(easy), or detect it automatically (more difficult).  It worked fine before.

Cheers,
Chris

Comment 2

[Chris Pickett]

I'm sorry ... I just noticed that I have the same problem with Find As You Type
or whatever it's called, so I'm assuming this applies to ALL status bar text now.

By the way, the only extensions I have installed are:

Linky
AdBlock
PrefBar
Home Button
Gray Modern theme

none of which should be causing the status bar to do that.

Comment 3

[Chris Pickett]

I really apologize for all these posts.

The bug has gone away for me now!

Honestly, the only change I remember making to my system was to uninstall Adobe
Acrobat Reader 6.0 Full and replace it with Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 Basic.

So ... um ... something is really strange here.  Can somebody else confirm that
Adobe 6.0 Full vs. Adobe 6.0 Basic is the problem?

Comment 4

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

:) if it works, please resolve this bug as INVALID (or perhaps WFM ?).

Comment 5

[Chris Pickett]

Well, I have that attached screenshot showing that at some point it actually
didn't work for me ... so you really want to just forget about it and resolve it? 

Or is it better leave the bug open in case somebody else has this problem?

Comment 6

[Chris Pickett]

i'm now getting this problem again.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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