294147 - Javascript window.status does not display in status bar.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256204

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[John A. Bilicki III]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050510 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050510 Firefox/1.0+

The javascript window status script does not display text in the status bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




There is a simple example on my site...

http://www.jabcreations.com
http://www.jabcreations.com/scripts/script-window-status.js

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050513
Firefox/1.0+

Do you have the "but disable common annoyances" checked in /options/content/ ?

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

This does not WFM on a clean profile. window.status() was disabled by default in
bug 252811. The new preferences window doesn't have a GUI for enabling it, as
far as I can tell (it is not included in "common annoyances"). The only way to
enable it is to set dom.disable_window_status_change to "false" in about:config.
See also bug 256204.

Comment 3

[John A. Bilicki III]

I hate the disable common annoyances box.  What happaned to my options?!  No I
won't check that box.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I hate the disable common annoyances box.  What happaned to my options?!  No I
> won't check that box.

Do you mean it works now?

Comment 5

[Robert Parenton]

Done by design in Bug 252811.

Comment 6

[Robert Parenton]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256204 ***