302559 - progress text is not updated across tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[elfguy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0+

When loading a page in another tab, while Firefox writes progress on the status
bar, if the user changes tab, the status bar stops updating but keeps the
previous  text unchanged, making for a very confusing status bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new tab.
2. Start loading a web site.
3. Change tab.

Actual Results:  
If the status bar said "Waiting for example.com..." it will keep that text there
for ever, instead of changing to "Done." when the loading is done on the other tab.

Expected Results:  
While keeping track of progress across tab is not currently easy to do, there
are solutions that would solve this problem:

1- As soon as every tab is done loading (when the loading icon stops on all
tabs), if there is no javascript generated text on the statusbar, write "Done"
there.

2- When a user clicks on a tab, if the status bar has any progress related text
written on it, print "" (nothing) on it.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 104532.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

So is this not a dupe of bug 104532?

Comment 3

[elfguy]

104532 deals with status text in general including text from a web page, and
suggests having the status bar always keep track of all tabs, and has been
classified as not a priority. This is just related to the progress text not
updating, and I'm hoping someone could fix before 1.5..

Comment 4

[pyrates18]

This is a bug that is in firefox 1.5 as well.

Comment 5

[pyrates18]

This is a bug that is in firefox 1.5 as well.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090314 Shiretoko/3.1b4pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)