392450 - statusbar link target is wrong after changing windows with alt-tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Igor Bugaenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Open any page with anchors. Optionally open any amount of links in other windows\tabs. Point your mouse over any of this links (status bar now shows the link target [unless no scripting was involved]). Status bar now shows the link target. Now Alt+Tab to any other application, then Alt+Tab back to Firefox don't toching your mouse.

Status bar now shows "Done" again if you haven't clicked any links on this page, or shows a link you've clicked before if you did - all this even though your mouse pointer still points over (another) link.

Of course, as soon as you move a mouse, status bar state become correct again.

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Sorry if this was already reported and\or isn't considered a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open any page with anchors
2. [optionally] open any of links in other tabs\windows
3. move your mouse over any link
4. alt+tab to any other application, then alt+tab back to firefox
5. see that the status bar doesn't show the link your mouse pointer is pointing
Actual Results:  
the status bar doesn't show the link your mouse pointer is pointing

Expected Results:  
the status bar should show target of the link the mouse pointer is pointing

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I see your problem on XP
On Windows Vista instead the target is still in the statusbar but if i alt tab to another windows, move the mouse and go back, then the statusbar still shows the link target even if i'm no more on the link (and does not go away until i move on another link)

The same on current Trunk, i've not found a dupe, confirming