288398 - status bar text shows "waiting for..." after loading image via javascript

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 247002

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shailesh Humbad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

The above URL points to the minimal source code to recreate the bug.  The page
contains a few lines of Javascript to create a new Image object, and assign the
src property to an image called 1ptrans.gif, also on the same server.  The
problem is that the status bar default text gets stuck to "Waiting for..." when
the page is refreshed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new Firefox window or a new tab.
2. Enter the above URL in the location bar and press Enter to load th epage.
3. Press the "Refresh" button (at least once).
Actual Results:  
The status bar gets stuck at "Waiting for somacon.com...".  If you hover over
the link in the page, the status bar shows the URL of the link.  But the default
status bar text remains at the "Waiting for..." text.

Expected Results:  
The status bar should show "Done" once the page and its preloaded Javascript
image has loaded, even when refreshing the page.

Problem occurs regardless of whether or not permission is given to Javascript to
change the status bar text.  Forcibly overriding the window.status property in
the body.onload handler has no effect on the text.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 247002?

Comment 2

[Shailesh Humbad]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247002 ***