407102 - when page contains embedded flash (swf) object that accesses remote data, the browser's status bar never stops saying "Transferring data from <domain>"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 383811

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[MM]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

Eventually it stops, but long after the data transfer has been completed by the swf object. 

I have reproduced this w/ the latest FireFox on Linux, OSX, and Vista.  For comparison the problem does not occur on Safari (Mac) or Internet Explorer (windows) and I asked around on IRC and this is apparently a misbehavior well known in the flash/flex developer community. 

The status bar correctly indicates various network connections being made as the page loads.  Then, long after the flash app in question is done accessing the network (as confirmed by watching the transfer and response on the other end) FF continues to display the "Transferring data from... " message.  

I even tried setting the window.status to an empty string using a callback from the flash app fired by the event handler that catches the last response received from the remote server but the offending message continued to be displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page that contains an swf that accesses the network
2. Watch the status bar
3. Notice that after the rest of the page has loaded the text still says "Transferring data from ... "
Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
The status bar should indicate data being transferred ONLY while the data is actually being transferred.  After the page is finished loading and the flash object is done using the network, the status bar should say "Done".

If you can't reproduce this, please let me know and I'll make a sample page + swf and attach them to this bug report.  I imagine it won't be hard to reproduce but if it is I will be happy to provide files.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

MM: Yes, please attach a sample page to the bug.

Comment 2

[Darren Scott]

You can view the behavior at http://mcs.schoolfusion.us.  And this is quite a well known issue.
Thanks

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I've seen this multiple times as well and it is a constant headache for us. This ticket is a dupe of bug #383811 since switching tabs and back causes the message to go away.