309495 - status bar displays large area with "<statusba ^" in red

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314674

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

The status bar is 4/5 times higher, contains 0 information except for
"</statusba   ^"

A screenshot can be viewed here:

http://static.flickr.com/24/45350833_bfe02f98eb_o.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The status window appears busted

Expected Results:  
A regular status bar

Comment 1

[Bill Walsh]

Attachment: Firefox Status Bar Broken - Screenshot

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

probably caused by an incompatible extensions that used to display something there.
Can you try and see if it works in Firefox-safemode ?

Comment 3

[Bill Walsh]

That's what I thought, so I uninstalled my extensions, still messed up,
uninstalled firefox and killed the program files folder, reinstalled firefox,
still messed up.

Here is a list of my extensions

Adblock Plus
PDF Download
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Reporter

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

It's more likely in your profile, reinstalling doesn't make any difference.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

backup your old profile
delete the old one and start Firefox (it'll create a new one for you)
Than put the backuped data back in the new profile (Firefox must be closed when
you do so)

Comment 5

[Bill Walsh]

Sorry man, I'm at work right now, I'll go home and install the new firefox and
see if the same thing happens, then I'll do the back up and stuff.

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Dupe of bug 314674?

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314674 ***