304979 - Status bar text gets stuck - will not change or respond to javascript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275784

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Michael Sager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I have a page that uses javascript extensively. It is on a subscription site, so
it is not widely available. The page is dynamic - it changes the innerHTML of
some SPANS, and the innerHTML contains images - so new images get loaded into
the page after the page is loaded. This seems to cause problems with the status
bar text. It just says "Transferring data from (web site)...", even long after
all of the images are loaded. The problem is that I have several scripts that
update the status bar, using window.status="string". These are meant to display
useful information in the status bar, but they don't work - the status bar just
stays stuck on "transferring data from..." Some of these window.status changes
are called by onmouseover events, and some are called within a script as an
image is displayed. They work until the page user starts loading images. I have
seen similar behavior at maps.google.com - when the page is first loaded, the
status bar reads "Done", which is correct. Once the page loads any new image
data, the status bar text perpetually says "Transferring data from
mt.google.com...", even though it is finished transferring data. In this case,
there are links on the page, and the URLs for them do show up when the mouse is
moved over them. I don't see any calls to window.status, so I can't tell if they
would work or not, but I am guessing that they would not. This has been a bug in
every version of Mozilla and Firefox that I have used, going back a few years now. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a web page that loads images dynamically.
2. Watch the status bar text.
3. If there are any calls to change window.status through Javascript, see that
they don't work.

Actual Results:  
status bar text does not change - stays stuck on "Transferring data..."

Expected Results:  
Change the status bar text, depending on what javascript does to modify
window.status

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275784 ***