37550 - (JS) Statusbar text set by mousing over a link remains throughout browsing session

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31997

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Build ID: 2000042808

[not sure where this belongs, trying html element for now...event handling 
perhaps?]

The following was discovered with the 'Software Center' link at www.disney.com

Steps to reproduce:
(1)Move the mouse over the link in the testcase [will be attached momentarily]
(2)Click the link, and while the next page is loading, keep the mouse over the 
link.

Once the new page loads, that text will remain in the status bar seemingly 
forever, until you return to the page with the original link on it, move the 
mouse over the link, and then move the mouse back over the page again 
(thus "resetting" it).

Feel free to resummarize, current summary isn't too good :)

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

add appr. kw's

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: minimal testcase [no unnecessary styling as in other testcase]

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

Happens on Linux too.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 37703 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[rickg]

Joki, is this one yours?

Comment 7

[Michael Collette]

For what it may be worth, this bug doesn't seem to be dependant upon having to
hold the mouse over an OnMouseOver for any length of time.  All over one of my
sites I have the following bit of code attached to my links...

onMouseOver="status=('Text for status bar'); return true">

  Whatever the last status was prior to leaving the page remains until Mozilla
has been restarted.

Another Test Case:
http://www.testequity.com/

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

updating summary a little
michael: i think you do have to keep the mouse over the link (at least in 
certain cases), since bug 37703 said so as well.

i just want to make sure this bug doesn't get forgotten, since it's a pretty 
big deal (especially if what michael says is true).  Once you're into this 
state, the text in the statusbar will never change again throughout your entire 
browsing session in that instance (unless you do what I said in my original 
report) -- this means URI's will no longer appear in the statusbar when mousing 
over links.

Comment 9

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This is a dup of bug 31997.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31997 ***

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

oops. sure is

Comment 11

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.