629964 - dom.disable_window_status_change unexpectedly set to false by default (DOM status text persists when switching tabs)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Build Identifier:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110129 Firefox/4.0b11pre ID:20110129030338

Tooltips of status does not disappear after the loading completion of the page.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Minefield with new profile
2. Open ( http://tweakers.net/ )
3.

Actual Results:
 Tooltips of status does not disappear

Expected Results:
 Should disappear

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

It persists to other tabs in the same window too.

Comment 2

[TimoT]

Attachment: testcase

Quite a few sites use window.status, the message persists across all tabs until something else is loaded.

Comment 3

[rob64rock]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 508188 [details]
> testcase
> 
> Quite a few sites use window.status, the message persists across all tabs until
> something else is loaded.

Setting about:config pref

dom.disable_window_status_change

to true

Resolves the problem mentioned in this bug 629964.

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Not really a regression, at least not a recent one. I see this bug using the 2010-09-21 nightly (one of the last ones with the status bar) with dom.disable_window_status_change set to false. I don't know why bug 574688 changed the default value of that pref. Maybe we should revert that change.

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This was mentioned in bug 574688 comment 54. Backed out that bogus change:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e058817c0ab0