40638 - document.status not being updated.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 31997

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[ocipio]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386; en-US; m15)
BuildID:    20000030708

at http://www.securityfocus.com/, the use document.status to display messages,
etc.  After typing in and going to a different URL, the document.status bar
keeps the last message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto http://www.securityfocus.com and view the status bar
2.type in and visit a different URL
3. view the status bar and see that it is the same.

Actual Results:  The status bar still reports the last message from securityfocus.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have refreshed/cleared the status bar.

With the status bar not being changed, moving your cursor over links does not
display them in the status bar.

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

verif. w/ todays linux

Comment 2

[Cyril Bortolato]

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

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sorry for the spam.  New QA Contact for Browser General.  Thanks for your help
Joseph (good luck with the new job) and welcome aboard Doron Rosenberg

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

vrfy