283438 - Status bar text lost when mouse moved over a hyperlink

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Laurie Green]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When running a longish task in Thunderbird that notifies users of progress with
text in the Status Bar - for example, when checking mail, you get 'Connecting to
pop.server.com', then 'Connect: Host contacted....' etc.,

While the Status Bar is displaying the current task's, if the mouse is moved
onto a hyper link (in an email or on the start page), the Status Bar text is
changed to the display link's location. This behaviour is correct, however, on
moving the mouse off the link the Status Bar text that was their previously is
not returned to that of the task until the task itself changes the message -
eg., to 'There are no new messages on the server'.

I feel this might confuse new and inexperienced users - "Why has it stopped
checking for mail?"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start the 'Get new messages' task
2. note the current Status Bar text
3. move mouse onto and then off a hyper link in an email or start page
Actual Results:  
The tasks text has been lost

Expected Results:  
The text that was their previous to moving onto and then off the hyper link
should be redisplayed - until the task changes the Status Bar text.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirming

Comment 2

[Peter Kasting]

Probable dupe of bug 133874

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter email address is dead.
closing WFM, tested with TB version 3.0a1pre (2007102103)