243913 - non-front tabs should not control window.status

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104532

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Lloyd Wood]

(This is arguably either a tabbed browser problem, or a problem with accessing
the javascript DOM from a tabbed browser. Filing as tabbed browser.)

window.status is accessible by all tabs, even when not frontmost. It's most
irritating to have a number of tabs open and not know which tab is giving you a
scrolling message, or to have two scrolling messages from separate tabs fight it
out in window.status.

Load e.g.:
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/people/jsarkiss/galileo/galileo.html
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Stephen.Farrell/ipn/background/five-antennae-for-galileo.html

into separate tabs, and watch them fight it out in the window statusbar, even
when another tab containing something else entirely is frontmost.

L.

Comment 1

[Stewart Gordon]

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