261061 - Javascript window.open has status = 0 but status bar still appears when popup opens

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Click the register button to have the popup open, you will notice that the
status bar is showing at the bottom, but not supposed to. If you do the same
thing on mozilla .8 it doesnt show up. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto www.hiregolden.com
2.Click register button, popup has status bar
3.

Actual Results:  
same

Expected Results:  
Should have no status bar appearing

Ive tried it on different computers as well, same result.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

that is a security measure to partially prevent spoofing

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 270214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

For reference, this was bug 259192.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 275333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***